Thursday, November 18, 2021

Are We Bullish?

So we are now 3 weeks old and we have had some ups and downs. The question now is. Are we bullish and will we survive the cut throat meme coin market?

In my opinion the answer is YES. Why you ask? I point you to the chart and tell you to zoom out. What do you see?

I see volatility on a small cap coin. But in the volatility I see 2 x lows and consolidation. The previous lower then the current low. Now lets put that into perspective. The 4th of November low of 35 points was during a bull meme coin market and Bitcoin strength. This saw consolidation then a 14x pump to around 450. We saw what was most likely a 160 consolidation forming prior to Bitcoin deciding to drop 20% and suck the life out of all coins.

With this bitcoin drop we saw a drop to 50 points as our low and consolidation now at 60 points, which is still higher then the previous low of 35 points. This low has also happened in a weak crypto wide dump event compared to the previous low of 35 during a peak alt coin run.

So in summary the chart tells me that in our current market condition we are showing strength and this consolidation should result in higher highs once bitcoin decides to re gain its strength. This may not be today, it may not be tomorrow but I still believe we are in a long term crypto bull market and this strength will return and we break ATH's

I also add that over our 3 weeks we are growing from strength to strength. We have gained a number of talented and enthusiastic people into the community who are breaking off into groups and working collaboratively on building this coin organically.

If you are looking for a small cap (currently $1.1mil) that has survived a significant BTC shakeout and is showing strength and a great community. I suggest looking at Bamboo Coin ($BMBO)

Remember to always DYOR and use risk management when investing.

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How far can this dip go? Crypto Market Update and Investing Report 11.18

Overview

· Major News

· Market Update

· BTC Technical Analysis

· Crowdloan guide: Acala

· NOOBIES lesson: BTC 4 year cycle pt.2

Major Market News

· Metamask and Polygon is being swarmed with activity on airdrop rumors. I recommend everyone open a Metamask wallet and go make a few swaps on any chain with low fees (Matic, AVAX, SOL, ONE etc..). There is substance to this rumor.

· US lawmakers introduce bill to push back the amendments in the Infrastructure Bill that can harm the future of crypto.

· The startup behind El Salvador’s bitcoin wallet wants to take the product global.

· Time partners with Galaxy to educate readers about the Metaverse.

· The Theory of Web 3.0. I recommend beginning to learn about Web 3.0, it will soon be one of major narratives in crypto.

· Cro price hits new highs after Crypto.com wins Staples Center naming rights.

Market Update

· Bitcoin continues downwards and hit as low as 56.6k. BTC dominance hoovers around 43.50 as some altcoins counter the market trend.

· Total Market Cap (TOTAL) drops as low as 2.4 trillion

· Metaverse and Games continue to climb despite the rest of the market

· SAND +14%

· MANA +12%

· WILD +8

· CHR +14%

· Algorand (ALGO) reached as high as $5.50 last night after a listing on Korean exchange UpBit. Price quickly returned to previous levels and currently sits at $1.86. I have reasons to believe that ALGO could be the next layer-1 to make a large run.

· Dollar Index (DXY) post a 60-week high of 95.62.

· TerraUSD (UST) continues its strong ascent to a $6.5 million Market Cap

Insight

The last report featured on-chain analysis that favors a market correction as opposed to a complete sell-off. Click here to read that report. Long-term holders were not reducing positions and exchange reserves showed no significant inflow. The next logical step is to explore probable areas for price rebound.

Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis (TA) is showing that price is headed towards an important, well-tested trendline that began on Jun 21. This trendline began at the bottom of the summer downtrend and was well-tested in late September. There is a slight increase in volume during our current sell-off which isn’t too worrisome unless it continues to increase.

The chart includes a line marker for the November 26 futures/options expiration. Expirations are often inflection points for the market and should be closely monitored. The trendline and expirations date line up with an important support level around 53k. It’s possible to see a lot of action in that zone and it could be where the reversal ultimately occurs.

BTC 1 Day Chart

A typical pattern seen during corrections is an initial dip, a small relief up and then a larger dip down. This pattern occurred in Sept and could be developing again. It’s a common place for traders to jump back in too early.

TA is used to show us historical price patterns but in no way guarantees what will occur in the future. It’s a common misconception that TA is a fortune telling device. TA is just another instrument in a bag of tools to aid in calculating possible outcomes.

Tomorrow we’ll explore the expirations on November 26. We’ll look at the options chain, leverage volume and max pain in hopes of making the best-informed decision.

Crowdloan Guide: Acala

Yesterday I made a mistake and predicted that Moonbeam would most likely win the first Parachain auction, but Acala was the actual winner. I apologize and I hope nobody missed the auction riding on my sole word. I will still talk a little about Acala in case you already invested or would like to invest in the future. In the future I will try to avoid the same mistake.

Acala is the self-proclaimed defi & liquidity hub of Polkadot. Sharing the name with a wrathful deity in the Buddhist religion described as “remover of obstacles and destroyer of evil”. A retail investor can only hope that Acala aids in destruction of our current financial system and lives up to its name.

On a lighter note, Acala is a layer-1 smart contract platform that is Ethereum-compatible and scalable. The parachain will feature a decentralized Acala Stablecoin that will be backed by DOT and some other cross-chain assets like BTC. Acala will likely include common defi products such as a DEX, aggregators, yield farms and leveraging instruments to name a few. Gas-fees will be insignificant which will help in recruiting users from Ethereum. Acala is backed by some of the largest venture firms in crypto such as Pantera, Coinbase Ventures and Polychain Capital. They have a large variety of influential partner projects too.

The ACA token will serve as a network utility token and will grant governance of the network with voting rights. Distribution is not amazing with 20% reserved for the team and 20% for strategic investors but this is common for large projects. 17% will be allocated for the Crowdloan. From what I interpret, they will allow voters to decide what to do with their treasury fund. After a Parachain slot is reserved, they plan on having public sales of their token for those of you who didn’t get participate in the Crowdloan.

Acala, like Moonbeam, will be very influential in the Polkadot ecosystem and the fact that Ethereum protocols could easily extend to the Acala Parachain, makes it important out of the gate. The stablecoin backing by DOT and “other assets” is slightly worrisome in this regulatory climate but it’s a small detail that requires further exploration. I personally invested into Acala through the Crowdloan. I recommend that you explore their website and read their whitepaper if you are interested in investing.

Notable Events

· The first Move-to-Play game Genopets (GENE) is listing on FTX today.

· Velas (VLX) an up-and-coming layer-1 platform, is listing on Kucoin tomorrow.

· Summoner Wars, with 50 million downloads and its parent company Gamevil are to join the Terra Ecosystem

· Redditor uncovers that PlanB predictions were discovered to be 10X of where price reached last cycle 4.3K (43k), 6.3k (63K), 9.8k (98k). I can’t find the post now but the redditor claimed to have read it on the Ben Cowen Telegram.

NOOBIES lesson of the day

4 Year Bitcoin Cycle Pt.2

This is a two-part series, to read pt.1 press this link.

In the last report I introduced you to the Bitcoin 4-year Cycle and explained some of its background. Today we’ll learn about the four different phases in the cycle. Those phases are:

  1. Exponential Highs (Bull Run)

  2. Correction (Start of Bear Market)

  3. Accumulation

  4. Recovery (Start of the bull market)

Exponential Highs

We are currently in this phase. This phase is the most exciting phase in the cycle. It attracts the most market participants and creates the most hype around bitcoin and crypto. A large majority of its gains are made during this time. In this phase, predictions get exuberant, bitcoin newscast appear and the Lambo talk begins. The end of this phase occurs when euphoria hits the market. Euphoria is the most dangerous time and unfortunately when most of retail enters the game. Participants begin to believe that Bitcoin will climb forever until it ends abruptly.

Correction

A majority fall victim to the euphoria and end up losing the gains they made. The correction phase unravels quicker than any other, as the market enters a fear frenzy of selling. There are few buyers willing to accept prices and so price quickly spirals down. You can see small cap altcoins lose 99% of their value and BTC will fall as far as 80% in a matter of weeks.

Accumulation

This phase is the quiet phase in Bitcoin. There is little news, attention or hype surrounding bitcoin in the mainstream. Few people care anymore, and many have lost hope for a recovery. This is when the smart money is accumulating. The price gets driven down and bought up at lower prices contributing to its sideways action. This phase is long, dull and Dollar Cost Averaging is the best strategy. This is phase when the real money is made.

Recovery Phase

This phase starts around the time of the halving. It’s when hope begins to kindle again. Bitcoin price slowly climbs and modest gains can be made. Many enter and exit bitcoin during this phase because of lingering fears of the last cycle. Those who hold through this phase are rewarded in the exponential phase.

These phases can be laid out easily, but the reality is that there are no clear lines to identify when one starts and ends. Its even harder to navigate emotions that come with being active in the market. These market cycles are common in new technology and are strongly tied to the market drivers of fear and greed. This is not meant to cause fear but rather as serve as a guide of what to expect when you participate in crypto and not fall victim to some of its pitfalls. Life changing money is very possible in this very young technology, but it doesn’t come free and easy. The best things usually don’t.

Tomorrow

· Options Expiration

· Max Pain price

· Trade Update on MANA

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Thanks for reading today’s report. Feel free to drop me any suggestions. My editor is out of town today so I apologize for any grammatical mistakes. If you’re new to crypto and want a subject covered in the NOOBIE lessons, drop a line in reddit or email.

Go make those gains!

Have a great day/night fam!

- Trader Gabi


Anyone else starting to take profit back to the big man at the battle to hold 4k?

Eth is trying to hold support at 4k while bitcoin is looking to test the 21 week estimated moving average, this small jump between eth and btc is a seemingly unusual turn of events, at least to me. Anyone taking advantage of this to convert eth to btc and save a little face on the way down? Im thinking eth wont hold 4k and will instead find support when btc bounces hopefully 54-55k, allowing a chance to convert back


Chaos TV! [Part 1]

On the inside, Jeff’s backyard shed was not at all how it looked on the outside. Outside was a standard blue-painted wooden Gambrel-style storage, still soaked from the Tacoma rain that was pouring even now. We raced over behind Jeff as he led us over to the partially cracked open shed door. Along with me were our other friends Kelly, Amy, and Miles, the five of us running through the rain as we stepped into random puddles of water hidden beneath the grass, some splashing onto my foot through my sneakers and getting soaked into my socks. This had better be damned worth it, whatever Jeff dragged us over here for.

When we got in, however, my frustration soon transcended into wonder. Inside contained an elaborate setup of two large monitors and a colorfully-lit, full-glass PC tower atop a large table, a loveseat, beanbags, trashcan, and a random fire extinguisher, for whatever reason. As a bonus, the floor was also carpeted (maybe not the best idea now due to the rain plus combined with our muddy sneakers). We scruffed our dirty shoes onto the mat left at the front of the door when we got inside the shed.

“This is a nice setup, bro,” Miles commented.

“Yeah,” I agreed.

“It’s only temporary,” Jeff replied. “Not a good idea to keep computers in an enclosed shed for very long.”

“I was about to say,” Amy jumped in. “Doesn’t it get really hot in here? Or really cold in the winter?”

“Sometimes, but you know how Washington is.”

“Humid,” I said.

“Exactly,” Jeff replied. “Which is why my uncle wants this moved by the fall. The humidity’s not great for the PCs. Or the bipolar weather.”

“Every state swears their weather’s bipolar,” Kelly laughed. “Unless it’s dry ass Arizona or Alaska, you know what you’re getting each year.”

“True. I think it’ll be fine. I told him that. I asked if I could get a dehumidifier, but he doesn’t wanna risk it.” Risk what, I wondered? “But anywho, you simpletons ready to have your minds blown?”

The rest of us exchanged looks best described as an amalgam of suspicion and thoughts of ‘might as well’. We didn’t get soaked for nothing. Jeff plopped into the rolling chair in front of the desk, immediately grabbing the wireless mouse by the keyboard and began clicking on an icon on his desktop titled ‘Neptune’. The shape of the icon was a circular blue shape, which contrasted against the family photo of him and his uncle in the background.

It was only the two of them his whole life. I never pried too much into his personal life, but from the conversations we’d had, it was apparent that other immediate family members weren’t present in his life. Never any mention of a mother, father, siblings, nothing. Even after graduation, he stayed behind with his uncle, who was chairman of a rising technology company called Medium Tech. Their slogan, “The future of entertainment.” They specialized in developing services for various forms of media entertainment, including film, television, radio, music services, etc. That being said, I couldn’t tell you at all what it was they specifically made.

“This shit right here is gonna rock your world,” Jeff said ecstatically. He was even grinning.

“Look, if this is some Bitcoin or that cryptocurrency trading shit, I’m not interested,” Kelly remarked.

“I am,” Miles scoffed.

“Hmm?” Kelly looked at him.

“If it makes me rich, then yeah.”

“Oh, it’s not Bitcoin,” Jeff spoke. “Or anything like that. It’s, in my opinion, way cooler than all of those things combined.” I arched my brow, and the others gave similar looks of amusement. “Okay, maybe not better than being rich, but it’s pretty damn close, I’d say.”

“What did you just click on?” Amy asked.

“It’s called Neptune,” Jeff answered. “It’s the name of the software the company my uncle works for is developing. It’s still only a prototype, but it’s a damn good one.”

“What is it?” I asked.

“Oh, you’ll see,” he teased. “I mean, really, it’s better for you to see for yourself because words just aren’t enough.”

A loading screen drew over the monitor soon after as the software began to boot itself up. Once it finished, a cute little two-note jingle chimed, and we were brought to a screen with two box-shaped icons and a circular icon alongside them, containing a plus sign in the center of the circle. The text underneath the boxes read ‘Jeff’ in one and ‘Christopher’ (Jeff’s uncle) in the other. Underneath the circular one read ‘Add new profile’.

“They’re making their own Netflix?” Kelly guessed. “Or Hulu, or something?”

Jeff chuckled. “Even better. Better than all of those streaming services combined.”

Kelly raised her eyebrows. “Okay,” she muttered under her breath.

Jeff clicked on his user profile, and hilariously, we were met with what seemed to indeed be a streaming service catalog. It appeared so, anyway. I don’t see how it wasn’t. Selections of movies and TV shows we all knew, and then some I’d only heard of or didn’t know at all. They were each lined up in columns where you had to scroll through the lists to take a look. On the side of them were texts indicating what I assumed were categories.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Superheroes, Book Adaptations.

Those were just the few that we saw. I could tell that there was more off to the side.

“You sure your uncle and his company didn’t just ripoff Netflix?” Miles said.

Jeff shook his head, laughing again. “My uncle doesn’t develop the actual software, he’s just chairman of the board. The software engineers take care of the fun stuff.”

“And you?”

“Well, interning is… well, interning. You gotta start somewhere. Wish I started earlier when I was in high school, but what can you do? Still learn a whole lot, and it’s a paid internship, so I can’t complain.”

Miles nodded. “No you can’t,” he smiled.

“Seriously, though, what is it?” Amy questioned. “You said we’ll see when we see it but I still don’t know what we’re looking at.”

“It’s a jailbroken Netflix,” Miles kept joking.

“Ha-ha.”

“That sounds kinda dope, actually,” Kelly chimed in.

“Okay, Jeff,” I cut in to quiet everyone, “Show us what it is - or explain, at least.”

“Why thank you, Anthony,” Jeff responded with that same grin. He spun his chair to where he was now facing everyone.

“Folks, what do you notice about all of these movies and TV shows?” he said as he motioned his hand towards the screen behind him.

No one said anything and we simply stood there and shrugged.

“They’re discontinued, right?” Jeff answered for them. “They’ve all ended, there’s no more to the story, yeah? No more sequels, no more new episodes, none of that. Finale, and that’s it. But not anymore…”

Those same curious yet doubtful gazes returned on each one of our faces yet again by Jeff’s eccentric behavior.

“With Neptune, you can make more,” he continued. “More episodes, more seasons, more movies in a series. Hell, wanna make a prequel of your favorite movie just ‘cause? Have at it; you can do that, too. Ever fall in love with a song from your favorite singer or rapper that, for whatever reason, didn’t get a music video? Well, now you can make one. A video game you wanna see turned into a movie? Done. Everything you can imagine, just picture in your head, can all be made possible with only a few - or, I should say, several inputs of information.”

No one said a word still, utterly baffled at what the hell he was speaking to us. It took Kelly’s outburst of laughter to break the silence.

“That was, uh… pretty good,” said Kelly. “It was a great pitch, really.”

“Jeff, c’mon, if you just wanted to invite us over to watch something, just say that,” Amy said.

“Oh sure, take a pick,” Jeff offered. “Wanna watch season 8 of Breaking Bad? Season 7 of The Fresh Prince?”

Miles chimed in. “I’m pretty sure both of those shows ended well before they reached that number of seasons,” he stated. “Breaking Bad only ran for five seasons. I don’t know about The Fresh Prince.”

“Not in Neptune they didn’t,” Jeff proclaimed. “I made more episodes.”

Miles scoffed, not believing a single word out of Jeff’s mouth. To him, and really, to most of us, he sounded out of his mind.

“Wanna see the new Diesel?” Jeff continued. “Diesel 5?”

Diesel (not to be confused with the actor Vin Diesel) was an action film series that ran on for far too damn long. It involved the main action star, Ben Tank (yes, that was his name), who drove in his diesel Ford pickup along the southwestern interstate. He ends up having to protect this pretty young woman’s life from her captors, and so throughout the whole movie, it’s just him and this girl racing down the highway and playing a cat & mouse game of other big trucks chasing them and trying to take out ole badass Ben. The first movie wasn’t terrible, to be honest. Then, as many series do once they start gaining more profit and reputation, the Diesel franchise jumped the shark and started going way overboard and ridiculous. I don’t know how the writers managed to keep coming up with more ideas and ways to have Ben Tank get caught up on the road in the same situations again and again. Just let it die already.

“There’s a Diesel 5?” I said.

“Not officially,” Jeff smiled. “Not anywhere else on anyone’s drive or stowed away in some big studio - at least, I don’t know if they do or at least are working on one. But they don’t have this one”

“They’re definitely working on one,” Miles rolled his eyes. “You know they are.” He, too, was over the drawn-out series.

“Sure, I’ll watch your bootleg, fan-made, B-rated Diesel ripoff,” Kelly snarkily agreed. “From whomever you got this. It might be so bad it’s good.”

Jeff just laughed again then exchanged looks of approval to the rest of us.

“It’s up to you guys,” he offered. “I got beers, drinks, popcorn, whatever you want to get comfortable.”

The rest of us then looked at each other.

“What do you guys think?” Kelly asked.

“I mean, you invited us over to hang out anyways, I figured,” Miles said to Jeff. “If we wanna do a movie marathon, then that’s all right with me.”

“Yeah, why not?” Amy agreed.

They then looked at me, the last one standing. Deep down, I really didn’t feel like watching it now. At least, not Diesel, in particular, and especially not whatever low-budget ripoff we were about to see. Anything else would’ve been fine.

“Sure,” I shrugged, sounding as neutral as I possibly could.

“All right, all right,” Jeff said in his best Matthew McConaughey impression. “Let’s do this.”

He then spun his chair back to the computer screen, where Jeff then scrolled a bit further down the list until he found it. The thumbnail was there. Diesel: Overdrive was the title displayed in a sleek, steel, slanted lettering like many other action movies I’d seen over the years. The poster had Ben Tank sitting in the driver’s seat of his pickup, tightly gripping the wheel with a sturdy mean face. It looked almost like one of the movie posters for Drive, the one with Ryan Gosling, except more intense. Bet it was photoshopped to look legit.

Jeff clicked on the thumbnail, followed by the list of brief movie details and plot breakdown, same as with any streaming service. Same actor, Timothy Johnson, as the star, except the director was different - bizarrely different. The same director had done all the previous films in the series, but oddly, this time it was someone else entirely. Someone so famous and in a league of his own that it was stupefying.

“Griffin Daniels did this one?” I skeptically asked.

“In my version, he did,” Jeff replied. “Remember, you can choose whatever director’s style of filmmaking you want. I figured why not choose the best and turn a cheesy blockbuster into a work of art?”

Miles shook his head, laughing. Griffin Daniels was one of the more prominent film directors out there, with his movies grossing more than a billion combined. He was up there with Spielberg, Nolan, Lucas, Cameron, and many of the other industry giants. That’s why seeing his name tied to a project of a lesser caliber to his standards was pretty hilarious. Now we knew it had to be a joke. It’s like if Martin Scorsese directed The Room. I’d actually pay to see that, now that I think about it. Probably be much better.

Jeff moused over the thumbnail and clicked ‘play.’ A black screen followed, and in the center of the screen appeared a blue loading icon, sort of like the swirling red circle on Netflix.

We watched as the opening logos commenced, accompanied by a mysterious yet exciting cinematic score in the background. On the bottom right-hand corner, a watermark of Neptune’s name and logo remained on-screen the entire time. The movie hadn’t even started yet, but I could already sense that this film was far different from the others in the series - if it were even real, that is.

“Zach Henderson did the soundtrack, too,” Jeff added. He was another major motion picture composer and producer.

“Okay,” Miles dismissively replied.

The rest of us pretty much held onto the same skepticism and doubt as we did from Jeff’s first attempt at selling us on the whole concept. But after seeing the opening sequence, and then several more scenes had passed, before we knew it, we each had our eyes glued and huddled around the limited space we had around the bright computer screen long enough to make it past the halfway mark. So much time went by, and I'd been so invested in the movie, I’d forgotten about questioning the absurdity of it all. I couldn’t believe it. Jeff didn’t lie. He couldn’t have. This was real. The actors, the scenes, soundtrack, editing. The way Timothy Johnson’s facial movements, voice, expressions, and the way his stunts were executed felt genuine, as though he himself signed and agreed to this. No, it wasn’t really him, as Jeff claims. But how was it not? It was a legit film - an actual worthy addition to the worn out Diesel franchise. I’ll be goddamned, but Jeff stayed true to his word, it was a solid work of art! It was nothing like any of the others before it. Surprisingly, it had depth to it, substance, a good plotline with stakes at hand, a good villain, character development - everything you’d want in any film regardless of its genre and general audience. It’s like whoever made this (or whatever made this) truly cared and put their heart into it.

“This is crazy,” I muttered out of nowhere, as everyone else was still lost in the story.

Amy then let out a delighted guffaw. “Honestly, though,” she agreed. “Jeff, seriously, how did you get this? And why is it so good? Like, who made this?”

“I told you,” Jeff shrugged. “Griffin Daniels.”

Amy smacked her mouth. “Seriously, c’mon. You can’t hold out on us like that.”

Jeff turned to face her. “Thank my uncle. And whoever coded the Neptune program.”

“You’re serious?” Amy exclaimed, now more enthralled. “This is really just all AI-generated?”

“Yep.”

“Like a CPU or something?” Miles asked.

“Well, the CPU is just the processor,” Jeff said. “It controls a lot of things like hardware in the computer and the execution of each individual-”

“In English, Jeff.”

“Basically, it’s the type of AI that’s based on limited memory and self-awareness, on top of reinforced learning.”

“That was… broken English, but I think I get it.”

“He basically means that it learns and makes better future decisions based on what it’s given, right?” I elaborated and asked for confirmation.

“You got it,” Jeff confirmed.

“‘Self-aware’?” Kelly said. “What do you mean by that? Like the Terminator or Ultron?”

“No, no, that’s an over-exaggerated Hollywood trope. The self-awareness of the Neptune software is only limited to what it’s programmed to do: make different types of mediums. It can’t go beyond that. The self-awareness component only adds to the authenticity of the movies or TV shows it creates. You ever try those AI-generated story creators? Ones where you put in a sample of text from either a book or whatever, and then the algorithm takes that and continues to make it up for you?”

“I’ve seen those before,” I commented. “Tried it for fun, too.”

“So you know how flawed it is? Adding random words that don’t fit the context at all?”

“Yeah…”

“Well, Neptune, as you can see, feels like a real person directed the project and put their heart and soul into it. Everything’s been properly edited and thoroughly reviewed before final cut.”

“But this is all still just AI?” Amy spoke. “A constantly-learning AI?”

“Exactly,” Jeff answered.

We were speechless and dumbfounded. Amy, like the rest of us, had to take a second to really register it all before asking the next big, exciting question that we were all thinking.

“Do you have more?” she asked with suspense.

Jeff, eyes glued onto the film, held that same ecstatic grin.

“My dear,” he said, “You can have your own profile and library of personal mediums tailored to your liking if you want. All of you.”

And now, a small grin of my own was starting to form over my face.

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After taking a couple of days of having Jeff help install the Neptune software onto each of our hard drives, including helping some of us build and setup our own PC towers along with GPUs (it takes a lot of processing power, as I’d imagine) I was overjoyed to begin creating my profile. The steps were pretty straightforward and simple enough. During the initial setup, I was given the option of two different user experiences: Confined Reality (CR) mode or Chaos mode.

CR mode sounded extremely complicated the first time Jeff explained it to us, and it took me a couple of times hearing it again before it clicked. Essentially, whatever medium (movie, TV show, music video, commercial, etc.) I choose to have Neptune generate for me will always be taken into consideration and used as a ‘learned memory’ for the AI. An example would be if I made a series of my own or sequel to a pre-existing movie, and the AI generates a script that calls for a major character death. Obviously, depending on the rules and elements of the story, of course, that character can’t then show up in the next film of that series. That would be a continuity error. In layman’s terms, if I decide to generate my own new episodes of The Walking Dead, for instance, instead of waiting for the new season, I can’t simply bring back characters who’ve already died earlier in the show. That would be breaking the rules of the confined reality established in the storyworld. Now, if I was creating a more fantasy-based story in a Marvel or some other franchise film, there’s more than enough ways to pull that off in that particular universe (they do it all the time, in fact).

But what if I wanted to say screw it and just have Neptune do whatever I tell it, without considering the principles of realistic possibilities and let loose? Well, that’s where Chaos mode comes into play. In Chaos mode, it doesn’t matter who died before or how the story has progressed thus far. Neptune makes it work. Now, that’s not to say that that decision doesn’t come with its own consequences; there’s still no guarantee that whatever it comes up with won’t make any sense at all or could’ve been better executed with previously taught knowledge taken into account. But, as we all observed with Diesel: Overdrive, the program gives its 100-percent into making the best possible medium it can. There’s no half-assing anything. If I want a Quentin Tarantino-style film to be generated based on whatever story I want, it’s not going to merely ‘imitate’ his artistic style. It’s going to make sure it creates the most authentic production with so much passion and heart that you’d believe Tarantino did it himself.

As downright phenomenal and exciting as this technology was, I, like the rest of us, also knew how creepy it sounded. The way it could easily replicate any single person’s style, based on the few or many loaded reels of information it’s given. That was the real doozy of it all. How easy it was. It was like sorcery. And the way it could simulate and create cinematic shots, locations, set designs, lighting, color grading, sound mixing - shit, even a whole damn soundtrack! It could do all of those things in a relatively short amount of time. Generating a standard 90-minute film takes only 30 minutes, even 45 at the most, depending on the budget and style of the production. Anything much longer like two-and-a-half hours takes about an hour at a time, sometimes a little longer. TV shows typically always take much longer to generate per season, especially hour-long episode formats. But it’s crazy that I can take a year’s worth - or sometimes more than that - of man-hours that it takes to make a film and have it all put together and condensed onto the Neptune program for me to watch in the comfort of my room in a short amount of time.

I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. I was shaking from uncontrollable excitement. I didn’t even know where to start. All of the shows that I wish didn’t get canceled or movies I wish weren’t stuck in development hell… there were just so many. I could make more seasons of Parks & Recreation, A Different World, Spectacular Spider-Man, Firefly, Black Mirror, Mad Men. I was listing things off in my mind in no particular order. For now, I took those specific examples and loaded them into the Cloud. The Cloud was where the user stores various mediums into Neptune, that way the program can start learning and taking from those exact styles for when I want to have more mediums generated from them.

That was one of the biggest downsides to it all. Waiting. The initiation process was the most time-consuming because the software still needed to learn. I couldn’t just tell it to replace all the prior James Bond films with only Daniel Craig as the lead character because, well, ‘technically’, it doesn’t know who James Bond even is yet, or Daniel Craig for that matter. That information has to be uploaded into the Cloud first by inputting the film’s ISAN number. In essence, it’s like a unique identifier for movies and similar forms of audiovisual media, like an ISBN for books. IMDB numbers worked as well and were much easier to find. I’d have my list of compiled mediums stored in the Cloud database where the AI uses them to learn and adapt and considers using them in reference to making future creations. So if I uploaded all of the James Bond films, or even just half of them, that’s more than enough for Neptune to go off of and create an authentic 007 storyline. Or, if I don’t want to change anything in the story, and only have Daniel Craig replace whichever actor is portraying Bond in a particular film, it can do that as well. It’s essentially a more advanced version of deepfake technology, which is no less uncanny, but mesmerizing nevertheless.

Other things that could be uploaded into the Cloud for AI-learning were pictures, video clips, GIFs, audio samples such as voice clips or readings, personally-made scripts or bodies of texts, and many more. However, with all of these things being readily available, the utmost important rule that Jeff even stressed to me was to not, by any means, upload personal information. That includes real people I knew in my everyday life that weren’t professional actors in the industry. In other words, I couldn’t have myself star in a medium or have my friends or family as an ensemble cast. That was the other big setback to the program. I thought it was pretty dumb, as a matter of fact.

There was a prompt that asked me which setting I wanted to choose before continuing. CR or Chaos. It was pre-selected for CR mode, which was the recommended setting. There was additional text that rambled on and on about something else I didn’t much care to read right now. I just wanted to jump in and get started. CR was fine with me for now.

I was patient, however. I let the program take its time to learn whatever I gave it. I listed off literally hundreds of mediums to store in the Cloud. Overall, this took just about the rest of the day to process. By the next day, it was good to use. Now the real fun could begin.

Over the next several days, I didn’t leave my apartment and hardly left my room, and if I did it was only to use the bathroom or to go eat something. I watched everything I could come up with. Marlon Brando as Rocky Balboa, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as The Terminator, simulated new episodes of Spongebob Squarepants in its old-fashioned season one artistic format, a movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series (done right this time, might I add), Jurassic Park 3 directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy again, the Star Wars prequels redone in the quality of the original trilogy, Nicholas Cage as Mrs. Doubtfire, Wesley Snipes as Black Panther, Emily Blunt if she originally got the role as Black Widow, Will Smith if he originally got the role of Neo in The Matrix, the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child directed by Chris Columbus.

Mixing up different combinations of genres and mediums, and pairing certain actors and celebs with one another to see how much chemistry they had and playing with the character dynamics was far better than any RPG or sandbox game I’d ever played. It was comparable to being like God himself. I didn’t even notice the watermark after a while and got used to it being there as a permanent stamp on the screen. Everything generated from Neptune’s software is already pre-coded to contain the watermark in the bottom right, which is basically to protect from copyright strikes and prevents from the reselling or distribution of Neptune-produced mediums. Neptune is only for personal use, and anything beyond that could result in legal consequences from major studio executives and estates.

Though, like with any new and entertaining piece of technology someone uses from the time they first use it, it’s bound to get old after a while unless additional content or features gets added to it. Of course, I still had hundreds upon thousands of possibilities to create, and I hadn’t even used a fraction of my profile’s allowable memory (things had to either be moved or deleted to save up space). But using the same actors and forms of media that were already made was starting to get slightly dull. Not exactly boring, just repetitive as a process. I wanted something more.

I remembered what Jeff said and the prompt text that popped up when I was creating my profile. Do not upload personal information by any means.

But why? What difference did it make? All of those people were real, the actors, directors, writers, producers, film crew; they were all real people, too, albeit more famous and richer than I could ever hope to be.

So I decided to say screw it and create my own sitcom, sort of like Friends and iCarly, starring me as the main character, of course, and the rest of the gang. I came up with potential titles, such as ‘The Anthony Show’, ‘Everybody Loves Anthony’, ‘I Love Anthony’, and many other cheap knockoff titles. But eventually, this one title stood out to me, as ridiculous as it sounded, and I eventually settled upon Chaos TV! Jeff, Miles, Amy, Kelly, and I would all be playing ourselves in various episodes of different sorts of misadventures and hilarious situations like any other American sitcom. The show even had its own opening and catchy theme song. The format was multicam and with the style of being shot in front of a live audience. And my God, the jokes were funny as hell. If this were anyone else’s show, I’d pay to see this. Which is funny, because it was just ourselves, except we had lines and an exact storyline to follow. My parents even guest-starred a couple of times, and Kelly smacking Miles in the back of the head at least once per episode became a running gag. It was quality television.

There was just one weird thing that didn’t exactly take away from the show, but was clearly the elephant in the room. It wasn’t just the five of us as the leading cast - me, Miles, Jeff, Kelly, and Amy - but a sixth person as well. Frank. That was his name. Residing in a comfy Seattle condo, six friends, Anthony, Jeff, Miles, Kelly, Amy, and Frank, get themselves into all sorts of trouble and wacky adventures while dealing with their own personal struggles of young adulthood and chasing their dreams. That was synopsis in a nutshell. But who the hell was Frank? I didn’t know a Frank...

Of course, Neptune could still make up and cast whatever it wanted to make for good storytelling, and I certainly trusted its process. However, I just found it unusual that given its premise, it would add a sixth person to our close friend group. It felt so out of place. I wanted to ask around and see if anyone knew who Frank was or if it was a mutual friend of ours, but then I’d be admitting to breaking the rule of using our real selves to be cast for my own entertainment. Jeff wouldn’t be too happy about that.

I opened my search engine in another tab and tried searching ‘chaos tv’ and ‘frank’ as the main keywords, but then stopped myself. I was an idiot. The show’s not real, I was reminded. Chaos TV! only existed because of Neptune.

I decided to continue watching, as Neptune already had five seasons of Chaos TV! lined up. Frank’s character stood out like a sore thumb, and that was not to say he was the true star of the show. On the contrary, he felt distant from the rest of us and didn’t have much charisma or chemistry to the rest of the cast. Sometimes his line delivery felt awkward or slightly uncomfortable. For example, if he were to be exchanging dialogue with one of us, especially Amy or Kelly, his words just sounded off, almost creepy, I dare say. I would also notice that at times when he wasn’t speaking a line, he would either heavily stare at the person currently speaking or simply stare off into space. Everyone else would at least be somewhat engaging with the other person or doing something to still feel like part of the scene… but not Frank. The infliction of his tone on certain lines didn’t land right all the time and made him seem a bit socially awkward. Even the side stories that involved him fell flat. I didn’t get his deal. What purpose did he serve? The subplots involving him weren’t even about him, really. He was always a supporting character to someone else’s predicament in a given episode, so I still didn’t know who he was even on-screen. Yet, he went everywhere we did in the show. I guess not every ensemble cast carries their own weight in a series. There’s always that one. There are some exceptions, yes, but it’s not unusual for it to happen.

Fortunately, after season one, Frank left the show, and it was just us five, as it should’ve been from the start. Thank goodness. Every other episode in the show after that started to feel much more relaxed and vibrant. Not that it wasn’t before, but Frank’s presence in the earlier episodes could really be distracting at times. Now the show was really starting to find its footing and it became even more hilarious. I’d give it a hundred Emmys if I could. Not to myself, though. Turns out I was a terrible actor. At least, I thought so. Though I was the lead, I certainly didn’t steal the show. That went to Kelly and Miles, and even Jeff and Amy had their moments where they held all the attention. I was just sort of there. Maybe it was awkward for me to watch and hearself myself on camera. But I quickly got over it and continued to enjoy watching everyone else carry out their roles throughout the show.

Then something else strange changed after season three. With no warning at all, Amy and Kelly were cut from the show, and were replaced with three other actresses, one of which looked familiar to me. They were different characters entirely named Jenna and Beatrice. Jeff, Miles, and I remained on the show, and again, it was just the five of us.

That was strange, I thought. What the hell happened to Amy and Kelly? I went ahead and tried seeing if I could re-generate the current episodes after season three to try adding them back to the show as permanent leads. When I prompted Neptune to start generating, however, an error occurred with the text prompt reading, “Continuity Error. Please try generating another medium.”

What the hell did that even mean? At no point in the show did Amy or Kelly’s characters need to get written off nor was it ever implied that they wouldn’t return. I skimmed through the rest of season four, not watching every episode in its entirety. I wanted to see if at any point they would show up again, whether they made a guest star appearance or something.

But there was nothing. Season four was over and when I moved on to season five and searched through all of its 22 episodes, I was met with the same outcome. Kelly and Amy were no longer in the show. In fact, there was never any other mention of them again. The way Jenna and Beatrice were introduced in season four was due to us three guys needing two extra roommates, essentially to replace the previous two girls. Oddly, when I went to rewatch the season four premiere episode, their names were still never mentioned. It was only implied that we had two roommates originally, but never their names or that we were all good friends. That was so strange. So strange, in fact, the show drastically declined in quality for me. None of it made sense at all. Why would the script severely change like that?

Then, as I skimmed over the timeline with my mouse, able to preview the scene and exact shot before jumping to it, I noticed at the very end of the episode, unlike the rest, after the credits was a line of text, perhaps a message, accompanied with what I could make out as two pictures of what I assumed were young women. I wasn’t sure if I was crazy or not, but it looked like Amy and Kelly.

I went ahead and clicked over to the closing credits, just as they were about to finish. I knew what would follow next was the very last message. Once the credits were done rolling, the screen went to black. I curiously waited to see what would show next, and I really wish I didn’t.

“Oh my God,” I muttered under my breath.

Across the screen were the words, “In loving memory of Amy Nguyen and Kelly Watkins,” with their pictures displayed underneath. The same pictures I uploaded of them when sending everyone’s personal information through the Cloud.

“Oh my God,” I repeated.

Panicked, I immediately called Amy first, then I’d call Kelly as well. Amy’s phone rang for much longer than I’d hoped, and I grew more and more anxious.

“Hello?” her voice finally answered from the other line.

I was so thrown off, though, relieved, I almost forgot to say anything. “Amy?” I said.

“Yeah, Anthony?”

“... Sorry, I must’ve butt-dialed you,” I improvised.

“Oh. No worries… you good?”

I was about to tell her, but then quickly hung up instead. I didn’t have to make that as awkward as I did, but I had to check on Kelly next. Her phone rang for far too long as well, except this time no one answered. Now I was very worried.

I called Miles, to which he shortly picked up the phone after only a couple of rings.

“Yes, Anthony?” Kelly answered on the other end, to my surprise.

I stammered, confused as hell. “Kelly?” I responded. “Uh…”

“Miles had to do ‘number two’, as disgusting as that sounds.”

“... Why are you with-”

“Did you need something?” she quickly cut me off.

I hesitated for a moment. “Never mind,” I said, then hung up the phone.

As weirded out as I was by what just happened, as I’m sure Amy and Kelly were nonetheless, I was at least glad they were both fine. But then I kept looking at the still image of them on the screen, their faces underneath those haunting words.

In loving memory…

The show may not have been real, but still… what could’ve prompted it to even say that? For my entertainment? What kind of sick form of entertainment was that? I didn’t ask for this. I would never. But now I knew that the only way I could even hope to maybe get to the bottom of this thing was to tell someone - that ‘someone’ being Jeff. He would know the answers, or at least enough to try troubleshooting the issue or come up with an explanation. Then he’d know I broke the rules. Shit. What else was I gonna do?

I could keep watching, I thought. It’d be sick, though. That’s what I felt. It would feel wrong to keep watching, even after the fact. Maybe if I kept telling myself that it wasn’t real, maybe that would take me out of it. At the very least, I could keep the show running in the background with me periodically checking here and there to see what else changed.

I ran the program to generate two more seasons. Season six took about three hours to generate. Once it was ready by the evening, I sat down and watched. The season premiere had barely begun, but I already watched in utter shock and terror at what I was now present on the screen. Jeff and Miles were now cut from the show, and I was the only remaining lead from the original cast. I couldn’t be sure, but considering the events that followed with Amy and Kelly’s departure from the show, whatever that cause might’ve been, I inevitably, instinctually knew Jeff and Miles followed the same fate as their co-stars…

My God, what the fuck was happening? Why was it doing this? Why was it making these bold decisions? I didn’t even watch all of the episodes, but just from skimming through the first few, Jeff and Miles didn’t return not once. Though it wasn’t real, I was truly starting to get scared now. My friends, my actual friends in the Neptune medium were dying off and I didn’t understand why.

When I tried to skip ahead to season seven, something went wrong. I got that same damn error as before. ‘Continuity error.’ How was that even possible? I didn’t change anything else that the AI didn’t already do itself. It didn’t let me make any more seasons past season six. I couldn’t believe it…

I couldn’t make more episodes of my own series - my own goddamn show - due to two simple words.

Continuity error.

I had to tell Jeff...


Cryptocurrency company executive jailed for stealing 6000 bitcoins from joint accounts

An executive of South Korea's first Bosecoin company to conduct an ICO was sentenced to jail for stealing a large amount of Bitcoin (BTC) stored by the company. The third court of the Supreme Court confirmed on the 19th that the lower court was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison on the appeal of the senior executives with a probation of 3 years. Mr. A was accused of failing to return the 6,000 bitcoins (worth approximately 19.7 billion won) that he and his colleagues held in 2017 to his account in the name of participating in the event. Around May 2017, the company raised a total of 6,902 BTC from global investors through an ICO (virtual currency public offering) for the first time in South Korea. Decided to store the collected bitcoins in the multi-signature accounts of three colleagues including Mr.😂


Kraken: Bitcoin price is expected to exceed $100,000 by the end of this year

The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken predicts that by the end of this year, Bitcoin will rise to nearly $100,000, and it may even exceed this threshold. In its report "October 2021 Market Review and Outlook", Kraken explained its bullish forecast with past events. It pointed out that the fourth quarter is usually a very successful period for Bitcoin. Therefore, if Bitcoin replicates the price increase in 2017, it may reach $96,355 by the end of the quarter. “Assuming that BTC continues to follow in the fourth quarter of 2017, we expect that BTC will rise further at the end of the month. In some cases, a 220% return in the fourth quarter of 2021 means that the price of BTC may be US$96,355.


Ep58 Bitcoin

Hi All

Just listened to S4 episode 58 and whilst I found it fascinating and educational, I’d just like to refute a few points made by Dr Ammous. Feel free to disagree with me in the comments because I’m using this as a method to confirm my beliefs as much as I’m using it to potentially educate. Firstly, most of the podcast I agreed with specially when discussing the economic side of Crypto currency and the values of decentralisation, fixed supply and security. Where I started to disagree with Saifedean was when Jordan pushed him slightly on why bitcoin and not other cryptos and tried to ask about some of Bitcoin’s disadvantages. I’m going to outline below some things that were deliberately skated around. I felt this was slightly disingenuous and has painted Bitcoin as the only Crypto that has any utility.

My goal for writing this is so that the people that read it can get a balanced view and ultimately so that Jordan can see it and interview alternative figures in the crypto community to give himself and Us a broader view of something that I think will be of Vital importance in the next 50 years.

All crypto’s bring something unique to the table and everything is often a trade-off, I’m not going to suggest any additional Crypto’s as I’m not writing this to Shill the coins, I believe in but I think Jordan if he ever see’s this should try to speak to more in the space than just Bitcoin Maxi’s as they are obviously biased.

Electrical usage

Whilst talking Jordan mentioned Bitcoins enormous electrical consumption and the environmental impacts of it, instead of addressing how Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism provides a positive feedback loop for electrical usage where more hash power to reach consensus is incentivised and how this doesn’t have to be the case for a crypto’s. He mentioned that anyone in the world can mine bitcoin. This simply isn’t true, the hash power required means that a standard computer would NEVER mine a bitcoin ever or even be useful enough to a pool (a group of miners that share rewards) to warrant the computer getting a pay out, not to mention the E-waste that is produced as a result of mining. This as a result gives an unfair advantage to the people that can’t afford specialised mining equipment, singling out the poorest in society and leading to centralisation (explained below)

It was mentioned that bitcoin actually does the opposite of waste energy as it allows the transportation of energy, once again this is somewhat truthful but all in all a false truth. Bitcoin doesn’t actually transport the energy it allows for energy wastage to have a value. If a power grid can afford to sell electricity cheaply this is most likely because the grid has excess energy or excess resources to produce it. To suggest that using these resources isn’t wasting them is only a truth if the system warrants the power usage in the first place, there are plenty of different Consensus mechanisms that don’t promote Energy usage as a way of securing the network. Thinking of resources in their simplest form say wood and claiming that boiling water is cheaper at the edge of a forest is true but its only saving energy if that water needed boiled.

Criticism of other Crytpo

When Other Crypto’s such as Ethereum were mentioned there was an effort to paint these as centralised or different to bitcoin. The reason bitcoin is different is because most projects have a creator who is still active, there reason bitcoin is different is because bitcoin’s creator Satoshi disappeared, Bitcoin isn’t actually different in any other way Bitcoin’s code has been changed since inception All that will ever be needed in a decentralised system to implement a Code change is the majority of the actors within the consensus mechanism agree to the change. Ethereum and other Alt coins accept these changes because a decentralised community (miners and node operators) see’s that the changes in code are for the better of the coin. There is a reason the majority of Crypto’s have moved away from POW.

An example of a time bitcoin has changed is here https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-history-part-10-the-184-billion-btc-bug/ , this isn’t uncommon for cryptos as a living breathing real life currency network will always need minor revisions. Sometimes miners have different views on the direction the code should take and this is where Forks are created, this has happened for most big Crypto’s including Ethereum and Bitcoin.

Perfect distribution

The perfect distribution was mentioned where anyone who knew about bitcoin could mine it, this is once again true and bitcoin supporters will tell you this time and time again and also tell you that anyone who wants Bitcoin can mine it themselves. Here’s what they don’t tell you, mining rewards haven’t been flat since its inception, when it was first created the mining regards were a lot higher, every cycle bitcoin undertakes an event called the halfening. This is where bitcoin rewards for miners are halfed. Whilst this may not seem a problem as long as miners can profit enough to continue mining it fails to mention that early adopters were paid huge sums of bitcoin. So much in fact that there’s a handful of Addresses from 2010 era Bitcoin that have remained inactive for the last 9 or so years which own in excess of 20 billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin, whilst the keys of these wallets may well be lost or destroyed, they also may not. Which means that in 30 years' time there could be a few trillion worth of bitcoin discovered crashing bitcoins price. A perfect distribution is near impossible but a distribution which rewards the earliest of miners for fractions of a dollar in energy gaining a tremendous amount of the future value of a currency in my opinion is far from perfect.

Usability

Jordan Mentioned how bitcoin isn’t that easily usable and he’s right, bitcoin can handle about 7TPS and can cost anywhere from $0.01 to use $1,000 to use depending on the demand that the network has on its transactions. Bitcoin maxi’s claim that the network is slow and expensive for security but other crypto’s have addressed these concerns far more eloquently in my opinion. To try and counteract the problems of Usability Saifedean mentioned how Visa could eventually use bitcoin as a standard and allow for the notional amounts of Bitcoin to transfer for practically free. This to me was the most bewildering comment because he was basically suggesting that the Bitcoin should be held by a centralised entity. This fails to address one of the biggest criticisms of the current Fiat system. Fractional Banking. There would be nothing to stop banks etc holding bitcoin and allowing more notional bitcoin into the system than they owned which completely defeats the point of bitcoin and cryptocurrency in the first place, I fully expected him to mention the lightning network but my only theory as to why he hasn’t is because of all of its problems and the fact that he is committed to dismissing everything but Bitcoin that when it then relies on a L2 system that is completely different architecture he can see the hypocrisy of his argument.

Forces towards centralisation

Lastly, a point that hasn’t been addressed by basically anyone in the bitcoin community is the forces towards centralisation of mining power. You know how its profitable to mine at 4p per KW? Imagine if you can get that electric for 1p through good or bad processes, you know what you can do? You can make more money than everyone else. Whilst this seems great for you it means that you can literally mine actors in the system out of profit, now if 99% of all the miners are playing a fair game it means that if one miner cheats the system and steals the electric, they now have the most profitable operation. As a result, they can continue to buy more hardware and continue to grow. Not only is this unfair on the miners but it’s actually a huge threat to bitcoin itself as it results in a few actors gaining a greater and greater share of the mining power and therefore the reward. Over time this will actually lead to centralisation and worse, yet it allows them to bid up the transaction costs as they’ll then get the reward from mining it.

All in all, I think crypto is a very powerful technology that will change the world forever but I beg this community and Jordan to not be blind to differing opinions and technology.

If you found this helpful, please engage so others are more likely to see it! Any questions let me know.


Success, i've found Satoshi

With little to no effort (i was looking for the Coinbase registered address): He was hiding in plain sight this whole time.

Stephen Mollah aka Satoshi Nakamoto is a British Asian macro economist and digital scientist. He invented Bitcoin and Blockchain in 5 May 2007 after 14 years of constant research on digital currency. Stephen Mollah wrote the original Bitcoin White Paper and Bitcoin Protocol in 5 May 2007. He decided to launch the Bitcoin project in a Japanese pseudonym to experiment his invention Bitcoin and Blockchain technology to prevent abrupt cessation by the so-called legal or established authoritarian. He were informed by a Super Intelligence that some sort of unexpected mysterious event is about to take place regarding his invention Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. So he quickly managed to create a Bitcoin Drama plan ahead with his metaphysical magical expertise. He knew exactly what is about to take place.

https://blockbit.wordpress.com/

And he registered with 27 companies since 2014

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/ErKFFDDlOIAHqFfuaDngSyPXn0Q/appointments

this is all publicly available information by the way.

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The World’s Largest Bitcoin Conference Returns to Miami for 2022

After the success of Bitcoin 2021, the event organizers needed a larger area for the upcoming year’s conference. The 2021 Bitcoin conference was held at Mana Wynwood, Miami; it successfully drew more than 12,000 investors and financial technology leaders from all over the world. Attendees of the Bitcoin 2021 event invested around $3.3 million in the local economic impact. However, next year the number of attendees is expected to be around 30,000 according to multiple reliable sources. Read on to learn more about the world’s largest Bitcoin conference, 2022.

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CryptoPerformance is honored to be a part of the AIBC 2021, which will be held in Malta. CryptoPerformance will demonstrate its actual potential and consolidate its position in the crypto sector at this spectacular event.

CryptoPerformance is honored to be a part of the AIBC 2021, which will be held in Malta. CryptoPerformance will demonstrate its actual potential and consolidate its position in the crypto sector at this spectacular event.

Visit us to hear about leadership, product quality, the industry's operation, and the business behind it.

More information here:
www.aibc.world/events/europe/general-info/

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PhoenixDAO’s Event Marketplace is mentioned on The Bitcoin News. Take a look at what was discussed. Don’t forget to reserve your tickets for your favorite upcoming event!

https://thebitcoinnews.com/crypto-prices-may-crash-your-events-shouldnt-gateway-to-a-secured-events-dapp-ecosystem/

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CryptoPerformance to showcase at Europe's most important Crypto and Blockchain gathering - the 2021 AIBC Summit Malta

The largest and much-anticipated global AIBC Summit Conference has started today and will bring all innovational companies together from the 16th to the 18th of November, 2021.

This year, Malta is hosting the world's premier blockchain and crypto event that brings together an elite selection of pioneers, innovators, thought leaders, policymakers, and key delegates representing new and emerging brands from the worlds of blockchain, AI, IoT, and Quantum Tech. Speakers on the historic occasion will include Justin Sun of Tron, Brooke Pierce of the Bitcoin Foundation, Ivan on Tech from YouTube, and CryptoPerformance Founders Horst Stabler and Giuseppe Rimola.

Two complementary supershows, the AIBC Malta and the AGS Malta, will happen under one roof that will see industry giants mingle together, with quality topics and content of the conference meticulously prepared to stir and sustain the interest of each one, from developers to expert tech leaders and CTOs. Even potential investors will be drawn to the attention given that a virtual exposition will bring brand exhibitors to a first-class converging point – where the best of the best in the business are highlighted.

CryptoPerformance (CP) will be amongst the frontrunners of innovative blockchains to present what it can offer on the financial sphere among game-changing equals and clients. In addition, users worldwide will be able to join in on the exhibition via virtual booths for questions and inquiries in AMA format.

CryptoPerformance will take the platform to speak and share their knowledge and expertise in building and nurturing communities behind cryptocurrencies.

In a nutshell, CP's mission is to research and promote relevant coins and tokens, educate and assist crypto buyers via easy-to-understand courses, affiliate programs, and nurture clients into solid communities behind choice cryptos. CP will also be on the lookout for ICOs in the market with robust plans and solid long-term strategies that clients may deem worth participating in. On the other hand, the CP Coin, the native coin of the CP Blockchain, is hard-coded for the security and flawless performance of businesses built on top of it. CP will also add more value to its goals by supporting charitable causes using its own innovative blockchain.

CP Founder Horst Staebler believes that "the long-term success of a cryptocurrency lies behind a robust and thriving community." He adds, "like-minded people must come together and build together in the same direction to achieve positive financial results. Our commitment is to help our clients become financially savvy and help their portfolio grow on a secure platform, which is, by the way, a rare thing in the current blockchain market. By achieving optimal results through the support of our CryptoPerformance Group, the price of the CPCoin grows.

For his part, Co-Founder Giuseppe Rimola, whose expertise lie on programming and technology, states that "among other things, crypto development with blockchain as the core structure, must continually evolve, offering new and relevant solutions and products that are apt to the challenges at hand. Times constantly change," he says, "and so must the service the coin renders. Change can be painfully slow, but active community participation is imperative for the coin to last."

AIBC Summit Malta is being held at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre in Ta' Qali. Positioned at the cutting edge of a very competitive industry, the AIBC event has evolved since 2018 into one of the world's leading events for blockchain and emerging tech, operating on both a European and world stage. In 2019, Malta AIBC Summit welcomed over 12,000 attendees from over 80 countries, and in 2020, this favorite in the global emerging technology event calendar is set to continue growing.

The all-important event will be a crucial factor in shaping emerging technologies. With CryptoPerformance and AIBC working together at the forefront, they will discuss and display an array of products, services, and solutions bound to shape the highly competitive industry's revolutionary future.

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Alibaba & Baidu! Is China a BUY? - BABA, BIDU, China and The Market

r/baidu, the Google of China, said ad spending would be hit by Beijing's ongoing crackdown on the tech sector, sending China-listed shares lower. posted third quarter earnings of 14.66 Chinese yuan per share, with revenues rising 13% from last year to $31.9 billion yuan ($5 billion). Looking into the final months of the year, which will include sales from the early November 'Singles' Day' shopping event, Baidu said revenues would remain largely flat, with a midpoint of $4.8 billion, as ad sales slow amid Beijing's recent restrictions on the tech sector.

r/Alibaba fell near 5.5% in premarket trading Thursday. The stock has declined almost 30% this year amid a broad crackdown by Beijing on Chinese technology companies. We'll check r/baba and BIDU , their PE, and my outlook for the next few months and years.

This companies are undervalued in my opinion and its a good time to buy Alibaba and a good time to buy Baidu. The market in general seems more green today than yesterday.

The r/crypto market continues its fall and bitcoin positions itself below the 60000 dollar barrier.

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    Major ambassadors from health, fitness and music industries...
    Interest from major exchanges...
    Complete billboard takeover of Miami...
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👥 Who's The Team?
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    Jacob had an idea to row across Lake Michigan solo in a man-powered boat from Michigan to Chicago (65 miles) to help raise the funds necessary to keep a cancer research lab going. It was a spontaneous and eccentric venture that raised $40,000.
  • 2016-2019
    ✨ Martini Party
    Supporting the research of acclaimed Dr. Mary Beth Madonna. This lab, currently located at Rush University Children's Hospital in Chicago was due to be closed, and with help of this campaign it was able to survive. $50,000 was raised at the event.
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    Jacob joined forces with former Chicago Bear, Charles Tillman, in fight against pediatric cancer. They rowed non-stop across Lake Michigan in a homemade boat on September 1st, 2019. This went on to raise $280,000 dollars.
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    During the pandemic, in partnership with Arizona Cancer Foundation, casino night event was hosted to co-raise funds in support of the cause. Although the pandemic forced cancellation of the event, these people collectively remain focused on the mission and are continuing their efforts. Over $100,000 was raised.
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    Once again in support of the incredible research of Dr. Mary Beth Madonna. This time $60,000 was raised to help support the continuation of their amazing work.
  • 2021
    ✨ CURE Token Launch
    Token went on to reach a current ATH of $10,000,000 (million) market cap, and has already gifted over $150,000 in charitable donations and research support.

PS: If you want to make a quick x10 on a project then CURE is not for you. This is a token for people who want to make genuine change in the world, whilst making massive long-term gains. CURE team have Ethereum and Bitcoin in their crosshairs and they seem not to be stopping until CURE is as recognisable to everyone as above mentioned cryptocurrency market leaders. So don’t even invest yet, come visit the telegram and check out website and whitepaper.


Tortle Ninja: Our team in Lisbon at the WebSummit

We are pleased to share our exhibit experience at the world’s largest technology conference as we had a successful event in WebSummit during this time of the pandemic.

Hands up to the WebSummit team for taking covid protocols seriously concerning the well-being of the attendees, with measures put in place to ensure a safe event experience for all.

Tortle Ninja is a no-code DeFi framework, aims to enable retail investors, fintech, and crypto enthusiasts to create combined DeFi strategies.

On November 3, 2021, The team went to Lisboa to showcase Tortle Ninja. Sharing our solution and vision to attendees, investors, and startups co-founders, and members.

With more than 40 years of combined experience, we’ve got a diverse and well-seasoned team at the helm.

The team presented to various attendees and investors how Tortle works. Tortle users can create combinations of DeFi operations by linking the nodes and defining a strategy. You can split, create a limit, stop-loss orders, and even more complex strategies. Tortle will validate the operation results and the composition of the operation if it is valid or invalid.

With Tortle, you can:

  • Create and trigger combined operations.
  • Make Tortle Combo recipes that allow you to create uncomplicated complex operations.
  • Save operations and re-use them, making possible the creation of easy-to-use DeFi strategies and products, like our Bitcoin Savings Account.

Discover us on our social media platforms and join our growing community: Facebook, Twitter, and Telegram.


Cardano Rumor Rundown November 18, 2021

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

  1. Senator Lummis reveals that she is working on a big crypto bill as expected. https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1461004206588968965
  2. CIP-0030 Related to the dApp Connector has been merged. https://twitter.com/stakenuts/status/1460891981417267205
  3. Be aware that fake stakepools are a thing! https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1460917711920414723

Previously Covered but still interesting:

  1. Remember! There is no mobile Daedalus wallet. There is no browser extension version of Daedalus. These are fakes! They will steal your ADA. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1445380773096398853
  2. The “Zombie Lobster” collaboration between Charles Hoskinson and Paul Oakenfold is actually getting coverage by the EDM media outlets! https://edm.com/news/paul-oakenfold-album-cardano-blockchain
  3. dcSpark releases some mockups from the experimental version of its upcoming Flint Wallet. The mockups seem to indicate that the wallet will allow for dApp interaction from hardware wallets. https://twitter.com/FlintWallet/status/1444902727956508674
  4. Charles is interviewed in the Harvard International Review. https://hir.harvard.edu/charles-hoskinson-1/
  5. The Biden Administration has revealed that it is considering an executive order to establish a government wide approach to crypto regulation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/white-house-weighs-wide-ranging-push-for-crypto-oversight
  6. The New York Times is now talking about the difficult balancing act the Fed has before it with high inflation and less than promising jobs data creating conflicting priorities. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/business/economy/fed-jobs-full-employment-inflation.html
  7. Representative Tom Emmer clashes with SEC Head Gensler over the direction of crypto regulation. However, it’s unclear how much Rep. Emmer’s solution (his Securities Clarity Act bill) would solve the problem given that it only relieves issuers of securities regulation burdens after they have already complied with the “registration or exemption” hurdle. https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1445465912375590913 https://emmer.house.gov/2021/7/emmer-introduces-legislation-to-provide-certainty-for-digital-assets-under-securities-law
  8. Caitlin Long revisits the articles she wrote years ago about fears of circulation credit in crypto markets. Spoiler: it came and crypto did it to itself. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1446874905241210880
  9. COTI is a licensed payment institution in Singapore. This could get very interesting given their status as the issuer of Djed and the ongoing Monetary Authority of Singapore Blockchain Challenge in which Cardano is a finalist. https://cotinetwork.medium.com/coti-lists-as-a-payment-institution-in-singapore-666c6fcaaab4
  10. Goldman says Evergrande is nothing compared to the potential $8.2 Trillion problem with local government financing vehicles in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2021/09/30/goldman-flags-82-trillion-threat-worse-than-china-evergrande/?sh=3296c9d515cc https://www.wsj.com/articles/beyond-evergrande-chinas-property-market-faces-a-5-trillion-reckoning-11633882048
  11. Cardano isn’t wrong about Africa. It’s just first. Google is investing $1 Billion in African internet access over the next five years. https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/06/google-confirms-1b-investment-into-africa-including-subsea-cable-for-faster-internet/ https://twitter.com/ghostchainer/status/1445964578257395714
  12. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (cryptomom) delivers an opinion piece that investors should be allowed to make their own decisions without SEC paternalism. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/perspectives/sec-commissioner-investors-regulators/index.html
  13. COTI has another AMA that reveals there may be more news soon for Djed. https://twitter.com/theCOTIinvestor/status/1447546724868935684
  14. Heads up: scammers are posing as Yoroi support staff! https://twitter.com/YoroiWallet/status/1446554949782016009
  15. Catalyst Fund 6 has 711 projects on the ballot! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1448015757216976903
  16. Coinbase is launching an NFT market. How will this impact the CNFT scene? Coinbase tells us: “...initial launch will support Ethereum based ERC-721 and ERC-1155 standards with multi-chain support planned soon after.” https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-nft-is-coming-soon-join-the-waitlist-today-for-early-access-cc7bac29fd72 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/coinbase-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-nfts.html
  17. Eric Rosengren (who recently left the Boston Fed) let’s us know that the Fed/MIT CBDC project is pretty far along and will release a working paper soon. This would obviously be impactful for all of crypto and for Cardano. https://youtu.be/ivqFo9C2Jdo?t=409
  18. The first project that actually looks like it may one day be a virtual world launches on Cardano and it already has a community built parcel explorer. https://pavia.luiscarlos.pt/
  19. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (cryptomom) gave a polite but scathing speech at the Texas Blockchain Summit where she laid bare all the problems with the SEC’s current approach to crypto. After her recent opinion piece and this speech, it’s fair to say that she and SEC Chairman Gensler are in open war over crypto. How this gets resolved will determine the regulatory landscape for Cardano and all of crypto going forward. Sadly, Gensler is in charge and not vice versa. https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1448011388841037830 https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/peirce-2021-10-08
  20. The Fed may begin tapering it’s Treasury and mortgage backed securities purchases in mid November. This is relevant for the whole economy including crypto. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/federal-reserve-releases-minutes-from-its-september-policy-meeting.html
  21. Sounds like the Milkomeda sidechain is making good progress. https://twitter.com/NicoArqueros/status/1448447729689059332
  22. Apparently, Putin kind of accepts that crypto might choose to exist. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-14/putin-defends-cryptocurrencies-amid-global-regulation-push
  23. Don’t forget: today (Oct 15) is the October Mid-Month Development Update! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1448715241961963520
  24. Sounds like Binance was not allowing ADA withdrawals for some period of time. https://twitter.com/Katsumoto87/status/1449723293632634882
  25. The Cardano Africa Tour has commenced with Charles popping up in South Africa. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1449304264849993731
  26. We got a nice Triple H update from Harrison/Hemsley/Hammond joined by Jan Müller in the October mid-Month Dev Update. We learned that we’ll have a maintenance upgrade toward the end of October and then PAB a few weeks later. This is extremely important since it will finally allow for the last bits of dApp buildout. The PAB is already available on the tesnet. The test dApp the team is using is an NFT marketplace. The team is watching as we see high loads around events like NFT drops. But, the network is reacting as expected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdTyV5Jejc
  27. Here’s video of the Fireside chat with Charles, Dynal Patel, and John O’Connor at the Cape Innovation & Technology Initiative in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmuJFc5Qrr4&t
  28. A brief update dropped from Charles this morning in Africa. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1450124410095030280
  29. Duncan & Sebastien have an interesting discussion on Github that fuels Cardanophobia on the part of ETH maximalists about three weeks later. https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/issues/3247
  30. The Cardano Foundation is changing its delegation strategy. They will go from primarily delegating to promote decentralization to a new framework focused on delegating to promote ecosystem buildout. https://forum.cardano.org/t/cardano-foundations-new-delegation-methodology-supporting-the-architects-of-the-future/79594
  31. Shahaf Bar-Geffen gives us some more details about the Djed launch. He says IOHK is doing the coding and COTI is doing the business side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPmIgJ0tE0
  32. In the Cap Innovation & Technology Initiative Fireside Q&A, Charles mentioned he is talking to Colossol Labs about the possibility of having the Mammoth DeExtinction Project take place on his bison ranch. There are probably some obvious NFT or tokenization use cases there. https://colossal.com/mammoth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmuJFc5Qrr4
  33. Three U.S. Senators ask Facebook to discontinue its Novi crypto wallet which just launched. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735171/facebook-novi-diem-libra-calibra-cryptocurrency-digital-wallet-zuckerberg-senate https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/19/facebook-scales-back-its-crypto-ambitions-once-again/
  34. There’s a new Frederik Gregaard interview out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdRAclhL0Q
  35. People are buying luxury real estate in Portugal with Cardano. https://twitter.com/danny_cryptofay/status/1451113239669092356
  36. Over 292,000 votes were cast in Catalyst Fund 6. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451269575140589577
  37. IOHK announces a partnership with Bondly to create an NFT bridge so that users can move their non-fungible tokens back and forth between Cardano and Ethereum. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451251954496180229
  38. Interesting small thread on how further stumbles by the Chinese economy could affect the global economy which in turn might impact crypto and Cardano. https://twitter.com/i/events/1452290004433125378
  39. Here’s a very nice overview of the Maladex Whitepaper by ADA Whale that breaks down the hidden strengths of eUTxO for DeFi including programmable swaps composability. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1451835809913470986
  40. The Cardano ecosystem maps are getting so big and dense that they can’t even display logos for the projects anymore. https://twitter.com/Meapool1/status/1450576470133379072/photo/1
  41. There is a report that unstaked ADA is at an all time low of under 8MM ADA. https://twitter.com/IbanxStaking/status/1451944344294883331
  42. Check out this medium article explaining the validator underlying the Spacebudz Market. It’s very elegantly and concisely explained if you have no Haskell/Plutus understanding. It’s even more interesting if you have a tiny bit of understanding of Haskell. https://spacebudz.medium.com/spacebudz-market-71e79d1bbf34
  43. Atala Prism named a top 50 Most Influential Project by PMI. https://twitter.com/IOHKMedia/status/1452544441005248514
  44. Pavia Game Jam is coming. It sounds like they are looking to hire some Unity (game engine) developers and 3D artists. This produce interesting results in a few years. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1451596816659763213
  45. Charles is releasing some images of meetings with heads of state on his Africa tour. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452671287977971726 https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452672734580838409/photo/2
  46. There is currently ongoing discussion about the possibility of unexpected tax liability from participation in even Fair Initial Stake Pool Offerings where there are accompanying Initial Dex Offerings. There is even discussion about the potential of exploits that could amplify this unexpected tax liability for all participants. https://twitter.com/mikerogero/status/1452502065381404675 https://medium.com/@mikerogero/tax-implications-of-the-minswap-ido-on-fiso-delegators-and-the-cardano-community-4db219ea8932
  47. We now have a memorandum of understanding with Burundi! https://twitter.com/jjtoconnor/status/1453087264461017092
  48. Fans of certain other Gen 3 blockchains are still getting hilariously worked up when they are confronted with the Messari chart on massive VC ownership of their blockchains. https://twitter.com/TamaraHaasen/status/1452924338047496193
  49. The new IOG stake pool delegations are out. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1453041459477819398
  50. Cardano Fans is putting out some really good pieces posed as “Conversations with a Junior Blockchain Developer”. Very educational on the technical advantages of Cardano over other Gen 3 blockchains. https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1452911202913464328
  51. ETH based platforms are still not faring well at NOT losing the money of users. https://twitter.com/Swag_Stakepool/status/1453392923672915968
  52. dcSpark is making progress on the Milkomeda sidechain. ADA transitions from Cardano testnet to Milkomeda testnet now working. https://twitter.com/Milkomeda_com/status/1453421947157716992
  53. The stark differences between being a validator on ETH and a Cardano validator are once again put on full display. https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/1453133337334272000
  54. There’s a new Djed explainer video out now from IOHK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ozaf_aGNM&t=1s
  55. Cardano 360 October Edition is now out and available! https://youtu.be/R0s3lPG8XDw
  56. The crypto time traveler is back after many months of being gone (i.e. purportedly being in the future). His first prediction after returning was about big news and a crown which was later revealed to concern the health of the Queen. His second prediction was about Cardano and gigantic success. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2/status/1452827679300849670
  57. Charles was at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education today. He reports that the onboarding of the five million students is on track. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1453697314187534343
  58. The Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia has posted pics of the Cardano team meeting with them! This is an interesting turn of events. The ministry posted about a “readiness to incorporate avant-garde technology in areas of #Agri Tech, logistics, and digitization”. https://twitter.com/MoF_Ethiopia/status/1453717850766540808
  59. There is a new IOHK blog entry on Mithril. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/29/mithril-a-stronger-and-lighter-blockchain-for-better-efficiency/
  60. You might have missed this IOHK blog entry on how dApp certification will be incorporated into the new light wallet (I know I did). https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/25/new-certification-levels-for-smart-contracts-on-cardano/
  61. The Cardano dApp Store is looking like it’s going to be amazing. Curation & certification without gatekeeping is a great solution to preserve decentralization and maintain censorship resistance. https://summit.cardano.org/sessions/redefining-dapp-discovery-bringing-dapps-to-the-mass-market
  62. There’s also a new update on Crypto Bisons! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/28/buffalo-soldiers-march-to-the-heart-of-the-blockchain/
  63. Charles released a new AMA from Ethiopia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5au7JEPMaM
  64. The U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial markets has published its Stablecoin Report. No surprise: they want to regulate stablecoin issuers as insured depository institutions with federal supervisors and to curtail their affiliation with commercial entities. They also want to curtail such affiliations for custodial wallet providers. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf
  65. It turns out there are some big chain reorg vulnerabilities in ETH 2.0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10086.pdf But, maybe ETH has already got fixes planned? https://twitter.com/casparschwa/status/1450785316865024000
  66. A partnership among World Mobile, IOHK, and Zanzibar has been announced! It’s a five year plan that focuses on education, eGov solutions, the Blue Economy (sustainable fisheries), replicating the Blue Economy model in tourism | agriculture | & telecommunications. https://worldmobile.io/blog/post/partnering-with-zanzibar-blockchain-hub/
  67. Alessandro has a great idea (multi-sig) to improve NFT drops over his original model that is now used by pretty much everybody! This would help mitigate the hassle of refunds and reduce some congestion. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1455473647934742530
  68. It feels crazy that we have over 2 million Cardano wallets out there these days. Our small ecosystem has become a gigantic one. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460/page/k5r9B
  69. The Plutus Application Backend integration process has begun! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1455905122802864138
  70. Pavia has revealed proposals for parcel size in their metaverse. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1455915006395101188
  71. Mark Stopka takes everyone to school on how “pool extractable value” can still be a thing in Cardano if dApp Developers don’t plan for designs that prevent it. https://youtu.be/0VloKsDjW70
  72. Nami Wallet will soon support hardware wallets! https://twitter.com/NamiWallet/status/1456375916918083588
  73. SundaeSwap has unveiled its own concurrency solution. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1456338509870952450
  74. A University of Virginia School of Law lecturer outlines a crypto related “hidden felony” in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.decential.io/features/defi-and-the-digital-asset-felony-hidden-in-the-infrastructure-bill
  75. IOG drops it’s Sustainability Report. https://static.iohk.io/green-blockchain-paper.pdf
  76. We get a view of what can actually be built on a Pavia single Parcel and news that the Pavia Map v.2 will launch soon with wallet linking and custom images. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456667167680831491 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456523907280822273
  77. The Plutus Application Backend (PAB) Beta has been released! Developers of Cardano dApps can now begin experimenting on the testnet! This is a big milestone! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1456683592726233097
  78. Apparently Cardano’s transaction volume just last month in October was double all of 2020!?! https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/1456730746861748224
  79. Looks like Cardano (at least the logo) made the cover of the Economist?!?! https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1457327848285376513
  80. We just saw an instance of Yoroi wallet dApp Connector integration! https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1457396024822075409
  81. We saw an all time high of +61k native assets issued on Cardano in one day recently! https://twitter.com/thinkgrowcrypto/status/1457130708300824576
  82. World Mobile just dropped a great video documenting the IOHK/World Mobile/Zanzibar visit. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1457800436501467136
  83. It looks like Zimbabwe is looking into crypto adoption! https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1457703228192301058
  84. Apparently, there’s a new partnership between COTI and the Cardano Foundation. Sounds like we’ll hear details on November 10. https://twitter.com/shahafbg/status/1457665945963532294
  85. There is a Spacebudz ad running on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square right now (November 8-14). https://twitter.com/budzdegen/status/1457706024778014720
  86. The IOHK Haskell course in Ghana will include 80 students! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/05/empowering-a-new-generation-of-innovators-in-ghana/
  87. A new Cardano NFT store has sprung up mentioning smart contract support and royalties for creators. https://twitter.com/jpgstoreNFT/status/1457548567032184832
  88. Terra Virtua is saying we’ll have our Cardano Summit 2021 NFTs by November 10th. https://twitter.com/TerraVirtuaHQ/status/1457800095101976578
  89. COTI is now talking about news of an IOHK Partnership to be announced on Nov. 10 in addition to the previous announcement of an announcement of the new Cardano Foundation partnership slated to be announced Nov. 10 6pm UTC. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1458129369482792967
  90. Here’s a beautiful thread explaining how one of Cardano’s big competitor’s tps claims may be HIGHLY misleading. https://mobile.twitter.com/EdnStuff/status/1457875177052643333
  91. The Galaxy Digital paper on Gen 3 blockchains is out. I think some may definitely take issue with their description of the capabilities of eUTxO smart contracts in the Cardano section. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1458271252993302535
  92. The Catalyst Natives program rolls out with a COTI ADAPay challenge to develop ADAPay plugins for medium & small businesses. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/introducing-catalyst-natives-how-any-business-can-leverage-the-cardano-innovation-engine/
  93. The “Director of Ops” of ENS Domains runs a poll about whether or not ENS Domains or Cardano has more utility. At writing, over 30k voters had surprised him with the answer he didn’t expect.. https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1458268301100990467
  94. IOHK drops a blog entry on optimizing network performance. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/optimizing-cardano/
  95. Looks like we’ll be getting both the PAB & the ERC-20 Converter in the “next several weeks”. https://twitter.com/DanielTetsuyama/status/1458209250950332418
  96. In macro news that could affect Cardano and all of crypto 30 year treasury bonds went vertical, and news of the +6% inflation in the US broke widely. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1458507405675880452
  97. World Mobile dropped a nice youtube AMA for us. Very interesting details came up about Microsoft Airband, Google Project X, and Project Taara. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1458718340931858435
  98. Weiss highlights that Cardano addresses participating in staking have grown by 100k in two months. https://twitter.com/WeissCrypto/status/1458845224671887362
  99. The Cardano Summit 2021 Terra Virtua NFTs have arrived. Check your inventory if you did all the tasks in the Summit’s virtual worlds. https://terravirtua.io/inventory
  100. Pavia dropped a more detailed roadmap with live events scheduled for the plaza in Q3 2022. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1459246398046674945
  101. Charles is back in Colorado and has dropped a full AMA. https://youtu.be/nnDWc6uP6gs
  102. The November mid-month IOHK Development Update is now out! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1459250049414799368
  103. Seeing reports that Cardano’s 24 hour volume recently exceeded Ethereum! https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504
  104. We’ve seen a very nice and steady rise in transactions over the last 15 days! https://twitter.com/WillyzPortico/status/1460221046112456704
  105. The January Haskell class in Ghana will include 80 students! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1460259961313837058
  106. IOHK has dropped their new article on eUTxO dApp architecture. It explains in detail a design for an eUTxO order book. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/16/architecting-dapps-on-the-eutxo-ledger/
  107. Apparently we saw over 1MM transactions in Epoch 302. https://twitter.com/ccvaultio/status/1460673461614006276
  108. Looks like Cardano is seeing a huge amount of on-chain activity. The crazy part is this is all pre-PAB. Just wait until dApps can actually launch! Unsurprisingly, some supporters of other chains were shocked to realize they didn’t understand the difference between exchange trading volume and actual blockchain use volume. https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504 https://messari.io/screener/most-active-chains-DB01F96B
  109. Charles drops a short regulatory update letting us know about the proposed bill to fix the highly faulty Infrastructure Bill language and another new bill to lay out a pro-crypto comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto (including definitions for utility coins). https://youtu.be/AcBuk0zHLfU
  110. Here’s the announcement and the bill from Senators Lummis & Wyden to fix the bad crypto language in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/wyden-lummis-introduce-bill-to-fix-broker-definition-for-digital-assets/ https://www.lummis.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/GAI21B7321.pdf

~Army of Spies