Tuesday, April 18, 2017

VOISE - Decentralized music platform for independent artists

 



VOISE will become a decentralized music streaming platform which will be developed using the blockchain technology and a personalized token based on the smart contract ecosystem of Ethereum. VOISE allows music streaming and downloading to it's users. This platform serves beneficial to both the starting artistes and the VOISE fams. Music and entertainment are a dynamic industry and we see that opportunities for the potential and starting artistes to get noticed are not that simple. Here, with Voise, this creative community can make money from their masterpieces. On the other hand, the funds received at the developers' end are used for the development of the Ethereum blockchain and making efforts to make the platform getting better and increase the number of users.

Voisiums [VSM] are the default currency of the VOISE platform, which are generally supposed to be used to purchase content. The platform is constructed on the foundation of Ethereum's smart contract technology and each user is free to stock up their earned tokens in the wallet of his own choice or the VOISE platform. The users are free to trade these tokens as any other cryptocurrencies.
Considering the current model, the platform works as a wallet, where the users get a choice to transfer their money to hasten up the process of the purchase transactions.

VOISE has issued a detailed roadmap for launching the platform in the whitepaper issued by their team. Having reviewed the roadmap, the following phases will be launched from time to time starting from Q3-Q4 2017 and the roadmap is perceived to complete the development around Q4 2018.

• The Alpha (a)
The alpha phase is the initial stage of the VOISE platform where the cryptocurrency users are targeted to help build the finest decentralized music platform.

• The Beta ([3)
The beta phase comprises of diverse methods of creating awareness, that endeavor to unlock the VOISE platform to users who are new to this type of technology.

• The Gamma (y)
The gamma phase intends to be launched at a large scale inviting eminent dignitaries in the music and entertainment community along with the potential financiers interested in investing into the platform to create a great music experience for the community. During this phase, steps shall be taken to make use of appropriate methodology to support the automatic piracy detection system.
The major challenge for making the VOISE platform a great success and beneficial for the entire community will be creating specific awareness about this technology. The community needs to be explained on the benefits in terms of making money and achieving popularity for their talents. In order to do so, VOISE plan to conduct an ICO.

The Ethereum-based platform tokens will be disseminated to investors in this phase. According to the available data shared, there is a total of one hundred million Vosiums, of which ninety two million will be sold to investors during the ICO. Everyone investor will receive one hundred and sixty VSM tokens per Ether invested. The remaining eight million tokens will be used for advertising and the VOISE team.

Impressed with what VOISE will become?
Join the Crowdsale @ https://www.voise.it

BitCAD | Encrypted business-platform

 



BitCAD is a management operating system that is entirely unified, allowing analysis and design of businesses based on Blockchain technology. It's many facets include the facility for online banking featuring integration with e-Wallets, online accounting with an automated system and a CRM system that integrates  business automation systems. This new- and exciting encrypted smart platform has many benefits for it's users and several unique selling points that put it ahead of the competition.

Unique Selling Points of BitCAD

Worldwide Community and Decentralized Network
As a decentralized governance model, BitCAD places industry, government, non-commercial interests and individuals all on an equal footing. In direct contrast to the more traditional governance models which generally operates from the top down with the government making decisions about policies, BitCAD goes for a multi-stakeholder approach which ensures that policy making is consensus-driven by the community as a whole. The primary idea behind it is compliance with all conditions and to keep it open to everyone without restrictions or borders.

Digital Asset and Multicurrency Ready
BitCAD is ready for use with all kinds of currencies, from traditional forms like the Dollar and Euro to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It can also support the use of Media-Sound currency and Digital Assets for even greater flexibility and appeal.

Smart Contracts and Business Processes
BitCAD offers Smart Contract Templates which can manage "smart" legal contracts throughout their entire process from start to finish. Beginning with the creation of a legal document template, progressing to the use of the template in the agreement and negotiation process by both parties to the contract execution itself, BitCAD simplifies and facilitates the process, and as an added bonus, provides a clear link to all legal documentation should a dispute arise. With a formal language that nevertheless has clear semantics and automatically identified execution parameters which can be passed into standardized code, ease of use is improved and lawyers can find themselves able to draw up contracts in a natural and simple way without using the more traditional legal form of language.

Speed and Reliability
BitCAD improves the speed and reliability of transactions, with the time taken from making a decision to the signing of the smart contract being cut down to under a minute. Users can also determine their own commission size which will affect the execution speed of the transaction. Reliability is also guaranteed since all significant distribution and storage is based on the existing tried and tested Blockchain technology.

Smart Oracles
The Smart Oracle is an easy yet flexible way of implementing Smart Contracts, encoding laws, business logic and other pre-agreed rules. In this system, it is possible to write rules in a range of programming languages with contracts being able to interact with all services that are able to accept commands that are signed cryptographically.

Dispute Resolution
The 3rd stage dispute resolution process which is automated and consists of story and electronic based arbitration or an impartial competent individual who has been specifically hired to resolve any complaint with regard to BitCAD's actions, decisions or management.

Biometric Authorization
With three different biometric authorization forms to choose from — fingerprint recognition, palm vein identification or face recognition, security is fully guaranteed.

Impressed with what BitCAD will become?
Join the ICO @ http://www.bitcad.me

EncryptoTel: Secure VoIP and B2B blockchain communications infrastructure

 
Due to the great significant circulation of internet enabled devices and excessive tariff of our traditional calling system, people now prefer using internet VOIP for calling and other multi-tasking. And among the VOIP communication services, EncryptoTel whitepaper is proven to be the best due to their amazing and awesome features for users, businesses and marketing. They are the first secure VOIP and B2B Blockchain communication infrastructure and softphone with incorporated traffic encryption for businesses and individuals.

With this great features and security, you have no limit in using the VOIP platform to stay above any offers a traditional phone provider can offer you. You are capable of using this EncryptoTel on all operating systems or devices which include IP-phones gateways. So that as far as your phone or devices have access the internet, you would be able to use this multi-platform. The VOIP communication application can make a call to anyone, anytime and anywhere. There is no one that will use EncryptoTel services that won't enjoy it or feel safe that they have adopted this new technology, artificial intelligence and encryption. Because EncryptoTel is the communication solution we all have been waiting for.

These are some very interesting features of EncryptoTel
1. Scenarios of calls: with this great feature, you would be able to transfer an incoming call to another number which can be a home or mobile phone. There are many ways in which you can choose scenarios of calls and you would be able to identify the caller or incoming calls and with the data you already have stored.
2. Substitution/Hidden Number: with the help of a caller option you would be able to hide your phone number or substitute your real number with a different number so that your true number would be hidden from the person you are calling.
3. Voice Menu IVR: this service can be use to substitute the response service a secretary can do for you in the office. This service is an information center that automatically responds a certain question a client will ask about. E.g service condition, working hours, Company address etc.
4. Free internal numbers: you are entitled to enjoy cheap- and secure calls with the network.
5. Acquisition/attachment of your phone number: This VOIP service give you the freedom to purchase and use a number from over 100 countries.
6. Right distribution: you would be able to create as many accounts and assign the rights and determine the manager for a company's department.
7. Voice Greeting: you can record a voice or upload a song so that the voice will be the first thing the customer will hear when they call.
8. Call queue and storage: whenever there are many incoming calls and the company has no time to pick all at the same time, the solution is to enqueue the call.
9. EncryptoTel also comes with cloud storage for information storage.

Pros
1. The communication services implemented the latest encryption system for security.
2. The best services to make both your international and local calls.
3. It has text to call services.

Cons:
Presently the beta version of EncryptoTel and Whitepaper is all that's available.

Conclusion
Since EncryptoTel is a new solution to communication and can contribute immensely to the communication world in terms of security and privacy. EncryptoTel will introduced a traffic encryption that is based on SIP/TLS technologies to ensure users and businesses are completely safe from data hijacking, call interception and unauthorized access. They have so much concern about the security and privacy of it's users and business since the company use SRTP and ZRTP protocols to provide the ultimate protection from audio interception and mandatory security for their VoIP services.

Impressed with what EncryptoTel will become?
Join the ICO @ http://ico.encryptotel.com

You can find the original Announcement on:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1848180.0

Friday, April 14, 2017

Coin of the Internet Realm, Aeternity

 


Aeternity is a brand new coin that provides quick and safe smart contracts that interfere with real world data by way of a decentralized oracle. It achieves scalability through Turing-complete state channels, this is one way in which it differs from Ethereum. Through a major innovation in oracle design, the interface to data in the real world is based on prediction markets. Scalability is increased by the state channels because all of the transactions are independent, this allows them to be processed in parallel. In addition, contracts will never write to a shared state, keeping the testing and verification simplified.

Aeternity is powered be an Aeternity token, which can be symbolized as either AE or Aeon. Resources that one may consume on the platform are paid for with these Aeternity tokens, they are also used as the bases for any implemented applications on said platform. A small contract that is hosted on Ethereum will determine the distribution of Aeternity tokens in the genesis block. An account that will support human friendly names as well as have an address and balance will manage the Aeternity tokens.

There are three identities in Aeternity, they are pubkey, hash and a name. The pubkey comes from the account, the name is from the alias, and the hash links to any further data on the IFPS.

The blockchain itself is made up eight components, they are as follows:

  • 1 The hash of the previous block
  • 2 A Merkle Tree of transactions
  • 3 A Merkle Tree of accounts
  • 4 A Merkle tree of names
  • 5 A Merkle tree of channels
  • 6 A Merkle tree of oracles that have not answered the questions asked to them
  • 7 A Merkle tree of oracle answers
  • 8 A Merkle tree of Merkle roots, these are used to prove identity and to prove the existence of the blockchain.


This blockchain is of course revolutionary in the way that it functions. It is a hybrid of a Proof-of-Work and a Proof-of-Stake blockchain. It achieves its consensus through POW mining. And uses a "Cuckoo Cycle" algorithm by Tromp. These blockchains are even able to be mined with smart phones, allowing it to achieve the highest possible level of decentralization. Governance is achieved by way of PoS prediction markets. These Prediction markets have been shown to be very good tools to extract information from crowds of people, it has even been shown to be better than basic voting.

Aeternity boasts an infinite trustless off-chain transaction speed that is limited only by the speed of light since the transactions are taking place in state channels. The on chain transaction speed is defined by four variables. "B" which is the block size measured in bytes. "F" which is the blocks till finality. "R" which is the time till finality measured in seconds, and "T" which is the transaction size measured in bytes. It should be noted that these variables are always being updated by either the consensus or the governance.

Aeternity utilizes a Turing-complete virtual machine that processes smart contracts through MAST. Aeternity turns these smart contracts into financial agreements that distribute money according to rules that are predetermined.


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Join the ICO @ ICO Website or read the BitcoinTalk.org Annoucement



Sunday, March 26, 2017

CryptoForecast innovation brought to the blockchain

 


Cryptoforecast is an application based on an algorithm called PILLAR It developed for traders and developers, is able to forecast the future movement of BTC or other cryptourrencies.The task of Cryptoforecast is to offer tools that help expert trader and retail merchants that independently selling and buying bitcoin. This procedure without Cryptoforecast is always possible, but it becomes extremely tough and can often induce the Trader, because of character traits, feelings and fears, mistakes that an algorithm cannot have. This application is truly innovative.

The Pillar software is tools that have been tested and proved able to give signals trend and interpreted to lead excellent result to predict the trend in market. The software is easy to use, but it has very powerful in same time the software is able to calculate certain period that each investor need. It can elaborate the any data and reports and analyze result in easy reading prediction. By clicking "History" then there will be option to choose years that use for calculate the forecast order. This is very helpful tools for those who use bitcoin project exchange.

Cryptoforecast is better than other software's because it designs to consider emergency requirement of young audience that looking for new exchange and economy approach that user friendly, and then there are many tools in Cryptoforecast that created for fulfill this demand.

On the other side no doubt It provide excellent information regarding pattern on the basis of past data but how can we forget other factors that impact on investors even it is not consider qualitative data it just work on quantitative data Further it is not considered natural disastrous etc.

Conclusion

Although nobody can really forecast the future of the market, Cryptoforecast can give good precise indications about future movements giving a fundamental support for all the decisions that a trader has to take, doesn't matter how important are the operations he does.

Buy Tokens

Tokens can be bought at ico.cryptoforecast.com
If you need more information checkout the CryptoForecast Announcement on bitcointalk.org

CryptoForecast Crowdsale information:


Whitepaper: We will release it before the beginning of the crowdfunding campaign.

How are the funds gathered?

The funds will be gathered on the web page ico.cryptoforecast.com

There are going to be 3 main modes to receive funds:

1. Bitcoin

2. Shapeshift

3. Changelly


Used currency: BTC
Escrow: Yes. We are contacting various escrow, we' ll let you know as soon as possible.
Length of ICO: The ICO will have a duration of 34 days.

Bonus: The funds will be released equally after the end of the ICO. This means that the effective rate will not be determined until the end of the ICO. There are bonus for the first participants, who contributes the first day will be able to have a multiplier of 1,5. From the 2° day the multiplier is going to decrease to 1,2. From that point, the multiplier is going to decrease by 0.0074 each day.
From the 30° to the 34° day there won’t be multiplier.

How tokes are used: CFTs are the only way to sign a subscription and have access to Cryptoforecast. With the increasing of users the CFTs will be more important and they will increase their value.

How are CFTs produced? CFTs are Full Pre-mined, a total of 50,000,000(50 millions)
This means that will ever be only 50MLN of CFTs and there won’t be any process of mining.

Who is the team behind Cryptoforecast? The Team of Cryptoforecast is already known the community of Bitcoin/Altcoin/cryptotrader.
We are going to release all the information before the start if the ICO campaign.

                                                           
Minimum Target and Development Boost

According to our plan, in order to improve to perfection in reasonable time the predictive algorithm PILLAR and the Forecast application we should be able to obtain at least 250 BTC from the ICO.

However, we have also established a minimum target to reach. If the ICO would gather less than 100 BTC, we will consider the operation failed and we will give the bitcoins back to the investors.

However, if the amount collected will be more than 100 BTC we will proceed to complete the development.
The other funds will be collected with the sale of subscriptions. The algorithm PILLAR, even though isn’t boosted with all the features we want to develop, is an extremely valuable tool that can help each trader.

More capital would allow us to expand the development team and dedicate ourselves completely to this activity. What would the result be?  A drastic shortening of the development time and increase in the same grade of the predictive capabilities and algorithm analysis PILLAR.

Two thresholds, the minimum of 100 BTC and the optimal of 250 BTC that we have called “Development Boost”.

Meet Lunyr - The Ethereum based encyclopedia

 


To begin with, Lunyr is a decentralized crowd sourced encyclopedia which has an Ethereum base and it rewards its users with tokens of apps that can be useful in contributing information and also peer reviewing. Lunyr is a next generation online encyclopedia which has an aim of being the starting point of the internet for finding accurate, reliable and useful information. Basically, Lunyr will just build upon the Wikipedia philosophy and then it will develop knowledge which will be next generation based on the block chain of Ethereum.

In other terms, Lunyr can simply be a knowledge layer of Ethereum which is driven by economic incentives and consensus in order to create or develop next generation applications that are decentralized. The long term vision that Lunyr has is to create an API which is knowledge based of which the developers can use to develop the next generation applications which will be decentralized in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and also Artificial Intelligence.

The decentralized applications through the Lunyr API will have the capability to grab accurate and precise data on events happening in the real world by tapping into the knowledge base. In life we require information which is something very crucial and currently the most valuable reference site for information is Wikipedia which is used by a lot of people in the world. A lot of articles on Wikipedia can be easily edited by somebody who has an internet connection and in the process one can easily manipulate the Wikipedia website and put false information although some of the errors can be rectified.

Lunyr will create a next generation knowledge base which will be able to solve the issue of inaccurate information and will push the boundaries of crowd sourced knowledge by using Ethereum. Ethereum will enable the creation of application tokens which will be used in a system that is incentive based in order to replace the intermediaries and the tokens will play a vital role in the provision of incentives. Apart from that, all the content submissions will go through a compulsory peer review process and will not be subjected to the knowledge base until they are validated for accuracy, reliability and also efficiency. An incentive system that is powerful which is enabled by application tokens will ensure that the peer reviewers perform best according to the ecosystem interests. This will result to information which is highly reliable and also accurate and there will also be rewards for the contributors and reliable information which will be useful for creating next generation decentralized applications.

Not to forget, the system of providing incentives for reviewing content and contribution by the users is a very nice method in having a hub that has decentralized information which is accurate and reliable and in the process facts that are irrelevant can be discarded with very bad reviews and only real and relevant content will go through by rewarding the good reviews and also good content. Lunyr will also have a site that contains paid advertising spots with the Lunyr tokens which will provide coin appreciation and also a natural buying pressure for actual use.


The Lunyr tokens will basically be used to advertise on the platform and the advertisements will be based on texts. On the other hand, the Ads will create a powerful demand for Lunyr tokens from the people with financial resources. They will provide that economic force which in turn drives network effect as many readers and the contributors will be joining the ecosystem which is very crucial. Lunyr will also implement machine learning mechanisms in order to identify familiar topics for the contributors and by using the contributors as the reviewers, then they will be able to support the entire system because they will be responsible for reviewing content which is submitted by other contributors.

Types of Lunyr tokens:

• Contribution tokens. (CBN)
These will be used as a basis for calculation in order to identify the quantity of Lunyr tokens that will be given to a participant and will be consumed after the Lunyr tokens have been distributed which will be after a two weeks period.

• Honor tokens.(HNR)
These tokens will be used for voting and proposing on the native resolution system for disputes and it will be consumed after it’s used.

• Lunyr tokens. (LUN)
These ones will be used to buy advertising posts on the Lunyr network and the contributors will be awarded Lunyr tokens in a period of two weeks.

Therefore, in short the Lunyr platform will basically be designed to align the rational behavior of network participants in order to be beneficial to the entire system. Also, the implementation degree will be in relation to the quantity of the ICO funds and in the case of a minimal amount of crowd funding, Lunyr will come up with basic functions and additional features will be developed in cases like that of maximal cap.

Lunyr Crowdsale Information

Market


A strategic component of the Lunyr platform is its advertising system, which allows for the purchase of advertising on the platform using Lunyr tokens (“LUN”). Although the Lunyr platform is unique in its design, decentralization, and vision, it can be compared to Wikipedia.

Wikipedia today ranks as the sixth most visited site in the world according to Alexa rankings. It attracts 470 million unique visitors who view over 19 billion pages per month. Estimating the amount of advertising revenue Wikipedia could generate if it allowed advertising on its pages provides clues to the potential demand for LUN:
  • In 2006, Jason Calcanis, the cofounder of Weblogs, Inc, which was acquired by AOL, published an article about Wikipedia estimating an annual advertising revenue potential of $100MM.
  • In 2008, BusinessInsider.com performed an analysis of Wikipedia and arrived at an annual advertising revenue potential of $350MM.
  • In 2011, Vincent Juhel published a thesis about Wikipedia for HEC Paris, and arrived at an annual advertising revenue potential of $1.6 billion dollars.

Vision

We will initially focus on fine-tuning the system to improve accuracy, increase content, and grow readership. Once the knowledge base matures, we will attract a wider audience by encouraging contributions of near real-time data on world events and translations in multiple languages. Ultimately, Lunyr intends to establish its brand globally as a reliable, accurate decentralized knowledge base.

Taking it a step further, we will grow the ecosystem by developing an API that will attract developers. This Lunyr API will allow developers to use the knowledge base as a backbone for creating next generation decentralized applications in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and more.

Lunyr API
The Lunyr API holds promise for significantly changing existing business models and creating new ones. The Ethereum blockchain currently has no knowledge of the real world, yet most useful applications require real world information. Through the Lunyr API, decentralized applications will be able to tap into the knowledge base and grab accurate data on real world events and information. This leads to immediate benefits for Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence projects similar to Siri or Amazon Echo are enhanced with the Lunyr API. When users ask fact-based questions, the decentralized application can dig through the Lunyr knowledge base and provide users with reliable, accurate answers.

Virtual Reality
The Lunyr API will enhance the intimate and visceral experience of interactive virtual worlds. Imagine putting on a virtual reality headset that lets you experience walking on the surface of Mars. As you walk along the cold, red-dusted ground, information about key landmarks and giant dust storms appear. All of this information is drawn from the knowledge base.

Augmented Reality
The Lunyr API can be the foundation for learning-based applications in Augmented Reality. Imagine you are at the beach on a sunny day and you see beautiful flowers by the seashore. You want to know what they are so you put on augmented reality glasses, which will identify the flowers, tap into the knowledge base, and give you all the information you need to satisfy your curiosity.


Crowdsale Summary



Initial LUN Supply Distribution



Funding Usage Breakdown




Author: Harry
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Technical review Matchpool

 


Many people are interested in looking for people who match their interests. Matchpool is there to help out such people fulfill their interests by meeting individuals who make a match with them. Matchpool is a site that offers a platform for human connections. The matchmaking protocol it uses is decentralized and uses dynamics of a group to help those who participate in it, match with one another. It can be used for various cases like dating, education, leisure, lifestyle, businesses, membership clubs, recruitment or for health purposes. If anybody is interested in any of these areas and does not find an existing pool that interests him/her, they can create a pool of their own which can be joined by other participants interested in it, hence making a match.

A lot of dating applications have been developed, but only few have survived. They get few or no people have downloaded and are using the app. Since they do not have a matchlock, the number of male might be high by far compared to that of female, who have joined the dating application. This discourages the users since they don’t have a wide selection of female to choose from. Matchpool has a matchlock that prevents the number of big difference between the number of female and male users; the pool owner has the power to put the matchlock in his/her pool if necessary.

In this matchpool, there are rewards that are available. Any person is allowed to open and manage their own pool, and the person now becomes a pool owner. He/she can set his/her own rules and terms for the pool; they will then be rewarded once they create any matches inside the pool.

Matchpool, is the first mainstream matchmaking platform which is powered by a token (guppy) economy of cryptographic. Guppies can be bought or even sold with real money. The trusted algorithm of Matchpool automatically rewards users across the platform.

Matchpool Crowdsale

Matchpool users will divide into two catagories – Joiners & Hosts.
Joiners who wishes to enter a pool of their choice, will have to pay the pool's requisite entry fee, which will be defined at the creation of that Pool by the Pool's Host. In addition to this one-time registration fee, a monthly membership fee will be paid to the Pool. All payments will be held in an Ether based smart contract and will be processed using Matchpool's network own token Guppies (GUP). While in the Pool, nature will take its course and all members would be able to interact publicly on private channels in a way resembling Slack's interface. On the other side, users can also play the role of Hosts and Matchmakers.

The host will be the one who opens a custom Pool and gets dividends from its revenues. Matchmakers or Helpers as they are defined in the system can propose matches between two other joiners who they believe would be good partners. Those two joiners are then notified and in case they both accept, the event is added to their public notebook, and the Matchmaker get rewarded.

Matchpool - The future of dating

Both the Host of the pool and its matchmakers are entitled for shares of the Pools subscription and monthly fees, paid with GUP. Matchpool first 200,000 Users will get rewarded with GUPs upon registration enabling them to make their first steps in the platform.

Dapplets

Dapplets are another way Matchpool users can get rewarded. These are basically add-ons created by developers who want add to the Matchpool protocol. In practice, Dapplets work similar to Slack plugins but can enhance the experience in a number of ways. One example would be a Dapplet, which implements “Tinder” functionality: users can swipe through other users. If one of their apps creates a match of some kind for example: if a "Blind Date" game creates a real match, then the Dapplet developers are rewarded similarly to Matchmakers.

Issuance & Distribution


Matchpool - The future of dating


Matchpool - The future of dating

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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Qtum - the latest blockchain advancement

 
Introducing Qtum’s newest revolutionary blockchain that promises to build decentralised applications that work. Cited as the middle ground between the blockchain community and the business world by Bo Shen, a Managing Partner at Fenbushi Capital, Qtum is a combination of an infrastructure similar to a Bitcoin Core and a version of Ethereum Virtual Machine that is modified to be more inter-compatible. The result is a stable, reliable blockchain suited for real-world use, in particular for business purposes.

No other toolkit offers what Qtum does; it’s hybridity means it offers the best of multiple platforms to produce the very best user experience. The PoS consensus protocol makes Qtum applications compatible with all major blockchains and supports both mobile devices and IoT appliances.

With Qtum’s technology, established sectors will find it much simpler and more secure to create tokens, partake in self-executing agreements, and many industries will find that this technology allows them to operate in a more standardized way. Qtum have done everything in their power, including engaging with outside partners, to offer users the most reliable, foolproof system they possibly can, reducing the likelihood of errors and faults that can set a business back. The Qtum technology was produced with all industries in mind, and those working in telecommunications, social networking or IoT, to name just a few sectors, can expect to greatly benefit from the use of this blockchain.


Bloq

Bloq, one of the largest blockchain startups is backing the Qtum technology after teaming up with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Bloq, nowadays known as Bloqlabs, is fully in support of promoting open-source initiatives, and it is hoped that the partnership with Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a big step towards improving the standard of open-source initiatives across the board and help to bridge the gap between the original open-source communities and larger companies now onboard.

For more information on the QTUM crowdsale, please visit: www.qtum.org/en/crowdsale

About Qtum

Qtum is a hybrid blockchain application platform. Its core technology combines a fork of bitcoin core, an Account Abstraction Layer allowing for multiple virtual machines including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Proof-of-stake Consensus aimed at tackling industry use cases. The Qtum Foundation, headquartered in Singapore, is the decision-making body that drives the project development. The Qtum Foundation has engaged one of the world’s leading professional service providers, PwC, for project management support.

Learn more at: Qtum.org Read the Whitepaper


Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Edgeless Casino ICO

 


Have you been disappointed by many casinos that are not fair and transparent to their players? Currently, many casino players are forced to believe that they will obtain fairness though most of them rig the game in secret for them to record huge profits. Most players have the odds placed against them. There are more than 50 casinos that have been blacklisted for their unethical practices. Transparency and trust are the most difficult practices to find in many online casinos. Online casinos can easily cheat their players, without them noticing it. This is because it is even hard for them to determine whether they cheated on their customers or not. This article will provide all the technical information about Edgeless Casino that you need to know.

The Edgeless project aims at tackling transparency as a major casinos problem and probably become the best casinos in the world. Features that make edgeless casino unique compared to other casinos

100% transparent

This is a unique feature that completely redefines how players will approach this gambling industry. This is made possible because the casino has Ethereum smart contract that will help players to achieve 0% house edge. This makes the servers of the casino to be accessed by almost everybody who might be interested. Most players have faith that the casino cannot cheat on them. The shareholders disclose the amount of profit they have earned during a specific period. The casino sets aside about 40% of its revenues to go to Edgeless lounge price pool.
- The casino has a strong competitive advantage than other players because of its high degree of transparency.
- The casino will offer many online gambling games that include;0%edge video poker, dice, black jack, and sport betting
- The edgeless casino has completely revolutionized how casinos operate and the changed the way people approach it.
- The casino will be launched soon, but the company is raising money through its crowd sale event popularly known as the initial coin offering.


Crowdfunding is where the shareholders can purchase digital tokens that can be used as currency and to validate your membership. Players who hold the EDG tokens can request to take part in a lottery when they can earn a lot of money.

The crowdfunding campaign is scheduled to start on 28th February 2017 at 3.00PM GMT. The campaign targets to raise around 360000ETH only by selling tokens to players.The Edgeless casino is no doubt the most transparent casino that you absolutely need to try out!

Please note: US citizens are not legally allowed to participate in Edgeless Project crowdsale

Learn more about Edgeless project on Edgeless.io

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Taas: Token as a Service

 


TaaS: Token-as-a-Service refers to a token based, closed end fund that is specifically crafted to cut back on the risks and barriers to entry in the block chain. TaaS has a uniqueness in that it is specifically created to deal with the conventional limitations in the bloc chain market. Its focus is the reduction and elimination of technical barriers manifested in the current market. It is also simplified such that the users will be able to develop better and deeper understanding of the market. TaaS is more transparent than the existing solutions hence increasing the appeal to the users as well as the investors.

TaaS will be operated as a closed-end fund, which will be used in the market making as well as trading operations. This aspect translates into simplicity and transparency. Transparency is also augmented by the presence of a cryptographic audit on the closed end fund such that the existing issues of underhand dealings will no longer have the chance of being operations.

The closed-end fund will also operate with utmost respect to the contributors. Anonymity is a major concern for the players in the market. Rolling out of smart contracts will be a way of ensuring that all players in the industry have consistency and anonymity when it comes to the sharing of profits. Development of Kepler platform will result in the integration will culminate in the intelligent, transparent and open system for portfolio management.



Cryptographic audit is ideal and unique compared to the industry standard. Operationalization of the cryptographic audit does not call for any human intervention. Consequently, there is no possibility of tampering to create the unqualified audit reports. The new audit technology enables one to view the balance and verify. The view only option ensures that no changes can be made on the balance. It also has the option of recording snapshots of the block chain. The regular records can be used to create the trend analysis related to the tradable account hence facilitating transparency and openness.

Kepler

Taas describes one of their main features Kepler as
"Our mission is to deliver long-lasting innovations to blockchain community, hence additionally to running a fund we are building Kepler, a first Bloomberg-like cryptocurrency portfolio management and analytics platform covering the entire spectrum of investment process, starting from market research, due diligence and order management all the way to risk exposure and performance forecasting. Development expenses will be covered entirely by TaaS profits. Kepler MVP is already in the making, with private beta release scheduled for Q3 2017."

That's one of the main intriguing innovation the project has to offer. With Kepler blockchain and blockchain innovation will come a lot closer to day to day practises. Something business will likely want to embrace.

TaaS is also better than the existing options in that it is owned and run by the investors as well as the contributors. In any event, of a profit, there is nothing that is held back as a reserve or for the operational purposes. The self-running and self-auditing options in the TaaS option eliminate the need to set aside a certain percentage of the earnings to cater for audit, and operations. Therefore, every profit will trickle down to the deserved parties at all times.

More information on http://www.taas.fund

Author: Bjorn

Friday, February 17, 2017

The Worlds Most Advanced Cryptocurrency Software, BitBay Makes Itself Visible

 

BitBay, the cryptocurrency software suite offering unbreakable smart contracts was keeping a low profile for some time but has now resurfaced; stronger than ever. The creator and soul developer of BitHalo/BlackHalo David Zimbeck has worked effortlessly the past two years to create the most advanced and secure wallet in cryptocurrency space. The software suite is capable of supporting an entire smart contracting interface with decentralized markets and other features.
A BitBay community member comments,
"How is it that a single developer can deliver such an incredible suite when entire teams of coders have a hard time even delivering a functional wallet? How on earth has this project gone unnoticed, and why is it not in the top 10 coins in the world?"
Unbreakable Smart Contracts
Unlike many other platforms, BitBay is not vaporware. It is a feature rich platform that offers unbreakable smart contracts for important real world applications. The BitBay contracts are far superior to other smart contracts as they are secured by collateral deposits from both parties, which makes it unbreakable. In the event of a default by one of the parties, their collateral funds will be burnt, making it illogical for them to cheat or exit the contract with the intention of defrauding the other.
The smart contracts system on BitBay eliminates arbitrators, biased third parties, escrow and even fees. Without any middlemen, it can create coins for cash contracts like a decentralized "LocalBitcoins", where cash payments are completely trustless. It can also be used to create "employment contracts", "decentralized eBay-like delivery contracts" (to ensure prompt delivery of working products), and even "barter contracts" that allows people to create a "wish list" and trade any item off that list.
The user-friendly templates on BitBay enable users to create smart contracts by just entering few details. The platform currently has a handful of templates in place, with more to be added shortly. In David Zimbeck's words, all one has to do is use their imagination to create a custom template for any deal they want. The platform's "Cash for Coins" template has already been successfully used by many to automate buying process and complete cash deals without needing escrow or middlemen. The platform will soon release a "buy/sell anything" contract template with reverse and regular auctions support. It will also include a variety of shipping choices.
Decentralized Marketplace
BitBay had a decentralized marketplace almost a year before "Open Bazaar". BitBay's completely anonymous market is built right into the client, and it allows users to create their own public and private markets. Or they can just check different contracts already available in the main market. The BitBay software allows communication between users by supporting email with end to end encryption like Thunderbird and it also supports Bitmessage for a more decentralized option.
Other features on BitBay include "Pay to Email" which uses steganography to hide payments within photos sent to recipient's email. The feature, originally created for tipping purposes has various other applications as well. Even the wallets' two encrypted keys can be hidden within images using David's steganography based feature. These keys can then be used on two different computers to sign transactions – a feature that lays the foundation for "Cold Staking", which will be utilized in both BitBay and BlackHalo. The Cold Staking feature will be almost impossible to crack because the computers used to sign your transactions can be in completely separate locations. BitBay will also make allowance for "exotic spending" such as "locktimes". In addition to the "dead man's switch", "parking of coins", "burn" and other spending types, it also supports automated joint accounts for business partners and spouses. The BitBay platform can also translate to 92 different languages.
About BitBay
BitBay has so far created a whole cryptocurrency ecosystem with its own functional market economy. All these things have turned BitBay into a powerful cryptocurrency software suite that can take on other cryptocurrencies. The platform enjoys a vibrant community that is regularly attracting and training new users. The "contract faucet" created by one of the team members is currently giving away coins using a unilateral "Guarantor" contract to whoever accepts it.

Friday, February 10, 2017

The Augmentor’s Game

 


Augmented reality technology was a sweet surprise to humanity when it came out. We could now experience stuff on a level never thought of before. People everywhere bought augmented reality headsets and made it all the rage. However, there were only some basic games and videos and that made the overall augmented reality experience a bit understated. Not anymore! Here comes The Augmentor’s Game which is a game that uses augmented reality in all its glory and immerses the use in an experience never before seen on any other platform.

About the game:
Consisting of 50 rare creature, the Augmentor’s Game is a 3D modeled fantasy game with the rare creature called simply as the Augmentors. Each Augmentor has a skill set including a variety of spells, movements and attacks. These Augmentors have an extensive back story that provides the immersive experience a user of an augmented reality headset looks for. They have their own origins, can be trained and even traded or swapped between other players. The creators, Michael Deon and Kyle Haffendon looked to create an augmented reality game based on and connected on the Bitcoin blockchain and they have succeded. This is evident from the fact that the game received positive compliments from the Sharks at Shark Tank and even received funding from one of the sharks.

Investing in the game:
When the creators of the game went on Shark Tank, little did they know they would not only receive funding but also the approval of Vinny Lingham, an ace in the Bitcoin sector and a supporter of the blockchain based start-ups. Along with Vinny, Gil Oved, board member at Growtech Venture capital, is also investing in the startup in hopes that it will become as popular as it is supposed to be. This was proved again at the ICO of the Augmentor’s Game which began on January 30st of 2017. During the length of the 30-day ICO , the DTB tokens will be available In a ratio of 15000DTB:1BTC. The developers are very confident about raising the required money of $1million to develop the game. Even if it fails to do so, the money raised will be more than adequate to develop an alpha version of the game that will be developed by May 2017 and will show fans all over the globe why this is worth investing!

Augmentors ICO information


http://www.augmentorsgame.com/token-sale
The Augmentors ICO raised over 700 BTC already.

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Augmentors is an augmented reality turn-based battle game and is free to play! Once you have one of the portals, you can download the free app and summon your creature into the world and start doing battle.
There will be two generic portals provided for download for players to print from the website. The two portals will represent “Player 1” and “Player 2”.
In the beginning of the game, you will be greeted with a selection of free creatures to choose from. Tap on your portal to select one of the creatures to summon & call your own and begin your journey as one of the Destined.


Goal & vision

The end goal of the Augmentors game is to be a cross platform (iOS & Android) augmented reality game that allows users to summon creatures into the real world to battle against your enemies and foes.

Creatures

Augmentors is backed by the Bitcoin Blockchain. Each creature and relic is assigned a unique Counterparty Token ID. Creatures and relics will each be issued in finite amounts that will be locked, assuring no more will be issued in the game. Once they are all sold, that’s it! All Asset IDs will be transparent and viewable to the public, showing issued amounts and the locked status of each asset. You can trade or sell your creatures with other players in the app or through the online Creature Store.

Relics

Each creature will have its own set of unique attacks and abilities, but it doesn’t stop there. There will be unique items called relics, which act as “boosters” for creatures in the game. They will be obtainable at special events, or be given as rewards for quests completed in the game or purchased from the online Creature Store.

Databits

We have created 100 000 000 (one hundred million) Databits in total, allocating 70% of that towards a Token Sale (which forms part of a crowdfunding campaign). The remaining 30% will be split and used to create awareness, promotion and development for the game. The Databits will be locked, meaning no more Databits can ever be issued thereafter.



Get rare creatures & relics

To acquire rare creatures and relics you will first need to have the Augmentors in-game currency Databits (obtainable through the crowdfunding sale) as well as a compatible counterparty wallet. You can then visit the online Creature Store or other creature resellers to purchase them using your Databits.

Own your creatures

Augmentors is backed by the Bitcoin Blockchain. Each creature and relic is assigned a unique Counterparty Token ID. Creatures and relics will each be issued in finite amounts that will be locked, assuring no more will be issued in the game. Once they are all sold, that’s it! All Asset IDs will be transparent and viewable to the public, showing issued amounts and the locked status of each asset. You can trade or sell your creatures with other players in the app or through the online Creature Store.

Trade and sell assets

You will be able to trade/ Sell creatures easily within and outside the Augmentors game app furthermore we will have a feature engaging special battles that allow users to battle for keeps – winner takes all (Like how marbles were played back in the day). All you will need is a compatible counterparty wallet that contains your DataBits or any other Augmentors game assets inside of them. Freely trade them on the exchange or at your own accord using your wallet or swopbot Game assets in Augmentors will all be assigned a unique Counterparty token ID. Assigning Counterparty tokens to game assets allows them to be traded/ sold freely within or outside the game on the Blockchain.

The exchange

The exchange for 1 Bitcoin (BTC) will be 15 000 DataBits (DTB). People, who have bought DataBits (DTB) during the Token Sales or from another player after the end of the Token Sales, will be able to trade their DTB on the blockchain and exchange them for other cryptocurrencies. Or they can use them to purchase some of the Augmentors blockchain-based creatures, relics & skins. Our creatures will be sold via “swapbots” – automated trading vending machines – which send the chosen creature when they have sent the right amount of DTB. Then they can summon their creature in the Augmentors game, or trade/ sell them on the blockchain.



The Augmentors ICO aims to raise $1 million, required for completion of the game. During the 30-day ICO ending on 28 Feb 2017, DTB tokens will be available in a ratio of 15000DTB: 1BTC and drop by 1000 every 5 days.
Even if the platform fails to raise the required $1 million by the end of the stipulated timeframe, all funds raised will be directly put to use for developing the Alpha version of Augmentors, set for release by the end of April 2017 on Google Play Store and the App Store.











Being rewarded with creatures in Rookie level will not subject it being a Rookie forever. Rookie creatures will have the ability to level up all the way to Hero/ Villain Status if trained & pushed to that level. All creatures on launch that aren’t part of the crowdfunding sale in the game will start on Rookie Level.
All creatures can achieve the God title, but only by beating another God creature in battle. Once a God creature has lost, it will lose its God title and drop back down to Hero/ Villain. Only the 3 Legendary Naturally Born God creatures sold in this token sale will never lose their God title. They are the originals of the game, they can never lose their God title.
Every creature will be backed by the Blockchain, allowing users to truly own their assets within and out of the game. The DataBits that backers have purchased during the Crowdfunding sale can be used to buy new game items, sold or exchanged for any other cryptocurrency.


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Augmentors ICO


FAQ



Will money be held in Escrow?

Two of the three advisors for this campaign are going to be custodians of the ICO money. They will have control over if/when the funds are released. If they are not happy at any stage of the development of the project. They will be entitled to withhold funds from the team or return them to the backers. The two custodians are Vinny Lingham(ranked 6th of Top 100 blockchain insiders) http://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/blockchain-top-100. The other custodian is [b]Llew Claasens[/b], who is the executive director of the Bitcoin foundation. These are both well respected members of the community.

Will the ratio 1BTC = 15 000DTB change?

Like most ICO's Augmentors has implemented a tiered system. The first day of the ICO will be the cheapest. It is 1:15000 DTB plus an extra 20%. After day one, the ratio will adjust has indicated above and on http://www.augmentorsgame.com/token-sale-ico

Will the game definitely be made?

Like any project, we can never guarantee that a final game will be released; however, through our pre-sale ICO, we have already raised enough funds (45.2BTC) to complete the Alpha version of the game. Secondly, as discussed above, we have very well respected members of the Bitcoin community monitoring this project. They will ensure that no money is spent recklessly and will advise the project, giving it the best possible chance of succeeding.