Friday, May 5, 2017

EXSCUDO - Nextgen Financial Ecosystem

 



The future is bright with ever growing technological advancements and forward thinking ideas emerging by the day. A great new idea is that of bitcoins and an interesting new development plan set up by Exscudo. In order to fully understand their mission, it is important to understand the currency which they seek to set up. Read on to find out more about this new development in online and digital currency exchange.

Firstly, the bitcoin or EONcoin is what they call a new formulation of encryption controlled transaction units that is being worked on to eventually form a new digital type of currency. This all happens independently of a banking system, creating a secure and controllable environment for you to control your money. The new system of bitcoins is currently under development, and is debated over an online forum set up by Exscudo. This platform has begun a miners' bounty campaign in order to spread the word and contribute to the effectiveness of the EONcoin market.

An exciting online all bounty hunt' has begun and is being held by Exscudo for various discounts on bitcoins, of which the Exscudo site will eventually act as a digital stock trading market for investment online. These are being called EON coins, and are being so-called mined for such discounts at incredibly low costs. In this way, Exscudo is working to unite the current up-and-coming cryptocurrency market with the traditional style of trading.



The concept of Bitcoin mining is a task carried out by researchers of all kinds to carry out online projects and write reports in exchange for cryptocurrency, in this case Bitcoins. This is becoming a very popular way of making money, yet requires lots of hard work and effort, as well as a high level of expertise in the fields you report on This underlines the Exscudo ICO project, as it is working toward the ultimate goal of allowing people who mine for bitcoins to actually make use of this currency for daily life. It works to eventually eliminate the long processes of converting cryptocurrency into the currencies which is currently in use

In this way, Exscudo offers a new way to work for and transfer money. They have come up with credit card systems as well as merchant plans that will work instantly and cost next to nothing to exchange with their clients. For those who may be confused about the concept of bitcoins, this is a good way of understanding it; as a new form of currency that is instantly transferred from individual to individual without any additional costs often heaped onto us by banking systems. This allows our money to remain our money.

The current ICO for Bit or EON coins is a marketing scheme for getting the word out as well as creating a good fund base in order to drive the Exscudo project forward. This allows people who believe in the future of cryptocurrency to invest early on in the game. The future of this form of currency will be able to be controlled and managed through mobile devices and online without having to go through middle men like banks. Many people find this form of currency the way of the future as it allows more control to be placed in the hands of the individual who possesses the bitcoins/E0Ncoins.

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https://twitter.com/ex_scudo
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https://www.reddit.com/r/EXSCUDO/

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BOScoin | Self-Evolving Cryptocurrency Platform

 



Well, what is BOScoin? BOScoin is a new virtual currency from a South Korean Fintech startup Blockchain OS. And unlike the existing virtual currencies, BOScoin is a new digital currency which also happens to be based on a blockchain. However, according to the company's experts it has a higher transactional speed which will go up to about 1000 transactions per second that is in line with the credit card processing speed.

Its platform has been presented in both London and Berlin by Blockchain OS where they have been answering the questions of many with interests in the fields of design, technical, architecture, and governance. BOScoin is designed as a platform for a self-evolving crypto currency as an upgraded and much better version of both the Etherum and Bitcoin. BOScoin is however built to assist in trust contracts that usually provide a more approachable framework for creation and execution of blockchain contracts. Trust contracts are those secure and executable contracts that are based on a decidable programming framework namely Owlchain and which comprises of two main components which are the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and a Timed Automata Language (TAL).

BOSchain has been developed to help create a much better democratic and decision making procedure. It aims to bring both technical operational issues at a minimum in many crypto currencies. The company is trying to be energy efficient with BOScoin transactions being created with the assistance of the modified federated Byzantine agreement algorithm.

Smart contracts



The Blockchain OS foundation that is involved or tasked with the issuance and management of the token currency BOScoin is situated in Switzerland which has helped set up the crypto currency and blockchain across 150 countries.

By being able to utilize their expertise in governance and not forgetting their experience in working with many global private companies, they will be able to apply BOScoin which will in turn help provide a platform for a more secure system i.e. even where non-technical users will be a able to create both shareable and blockchain contracts.

BOScoin is made up of a governance system in which the node operators also known as the congress network which participates in creation and voting of the proposals so as to allow continuous improvement on the software as well as the ecosystem. This congress network works with the congress users in three different ways: through transactions, through proposals and by coin freezing.

New coins are however usually offered in four ways, in initial development budget, through confirmation rewards, through freezing rewards and finally by offering the commons budget. For those who may wish to join BOScoin there are various categories. Where each different category has been given a bounty pool. These are
1. Signature or Avatar campaign
2. ICO dashboard
3. Newsletter and Slack Subscriptions
4. Community manager campaign
5. Translations campaign
6. Social channel activity campaign.

In this bounty applications, one will require to submit a different bounty application using an online form which is quite easy and fast. It will help the company determine the best way to offer all the bounties.

Supply BOScoin



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What is Blockpool?

 

Blockpool is a Business to Business (B2B) Blockchain service provider. Blockpool delivers a diverse range of solutions to clients using Blockpool ranging from blue chips corporate through boutiques. They thought of a solution that will be the first to realize a mainstream market adoption. Blockpool provides a globally scaled business plan that can streamline business processes, provide efficient and secure transfers and transactions, reduce overheads, Blockpool has been designed to provide efficient deployment of systems to achieve "SMART DATA".

The BPL controlled Blockchain is fundamental to all its aspects of the Blockpool business. Projects, Smart Contacts and other bespoke assets are created from this master Blockchain. They offer 25 Million coins in their initial offering through their Token Exchange Campaign and have a pretty good agreement with the participants.

Benefits of participating in the BPL Token Exchange Campaign:

BPL is a real world business token that controls projects across numerous verticals and applications. The Market Forces determines the value but with their existing agreements and with their experienced team, they anticipate strong open market demand. 2.5% of the company's net profits/earnings is to be distributed to all the members through token Exchange revenue share (converted to BPL) and distributed to wallets once per year after the official accounts have been submitted and approved.

Technical Views on the crypto currency and Blockchain

The transactions of Bitcoin are done by electronic signatures and all the transactions are publicly visible. The Timestamp servers keep the transactions secured, that is, ensure that nobody double spends their Bitcoin.

Proof of Work - To implement a distributed timestamp server on peer to peer basis, it uses a proof of work system which also solves the problem of determining representation in in majority decision making. Proof of work is essentially one CPU one vote.

Payment verification - The payment verification process is pretty simple, which makes Bitcoin a trustable way of doing transaction, although it is based on a non-trust idea. A user does not have to run a long test in order to verify the payment. He is only required to store a copy replica of the chain's block header. He can't directly check the transaction but he can see if some network node accepts it or not It will surely do if the claim is honest. The payment is secure till there exists no fake nodes. But it becomes more vulnerable if some attackers get into the network and over powers it. As network nodes self-verify themselves, the process can easily be used by an attacker to fool the payees by generating a fake verification of the nodes.

This is prevented by the algorithm in which the nodes inform the owners if it detects any invalid block. It then prompts the owner to again download the core or original or whole node and clarify about the unusual happenings. It is a system of transaction where transactions can be done electrically without relying on anybody or without any third party or without trust. This direct transfer from one party to another also saves a lot of time.

The Team



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Minexcoin - Stable. Secure. Practical. Fast.

 



Unlike other altcoins, Minexcoin is a steady cryptocurrency with low volatility with a fixed growth annually. The yearly growth of Minexcoin has been the highest as compared to other altcoins. By using Minexcoin for either trading, daily financial activities or for long-term investments, there is an assurance of gaining value. The reasons why it is the most preferred is because of; the Minexcoin never loses its value, due to its interests and annual growths, the currency will always remain to be stable and its low volatility. The stability in growth and the low volatility is obtained through MinexBank which is the work of qualified economists.

When the supply and demand are automatically regulated at exchanges, the high volatility issue of MinexCoin is tackled. Subject on the balance of demand and supply at a given period of time, various algorithms are used in encouragement of buying from coin holders, selling or keeping of the resources. Just as the activities in central banks in maintenance of their national currency costs, so do the algorithms of MinexCoin. An implication of professional economists monitoring decisions of algorithms are defined in hybrid governance. MinexBank becomes a devolved independent organization upon fine tuning of algorithms.

Appealing of asset prices is done at the central exchange, which is a representation of the point where MinexBank buys, stores and sells their resources during assessment of the conditions of the market. The most secure exchange of the existing currency is selected. Trade arbitration ensures that the prices of the assets remain constant whether sold at the main point or in other places. The algorithms of MinexBank makes use of efficient and simple pattern. Market behavior of MinexBank is dependent on three factors which are; excessive supply, excessive demand and demand or supply demand. MinexBnk has therefore developed three strategies to counter the effects resulted from the factors mentioned.

MinexCoin has its basement in source code of Bitcoin because the code has been confirmed to be reliable. In a complete turnover, two types of assets are used in the cryptocurrencies that are most sable. The types of assets are the stable coin and the token shares that have been traded. A single coin used as a share and a means of payment is employed by MinexCoin. The investors benefit through receiving of stable assets that are reliable. Campaign by MinexCoin encompasses two distinct phases which are; subscription phase used to define the applicability, value and importance of developing growing steady asset and presale phase that involves determination of the price of the coin in the market prior to entry into the exchange.

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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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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.


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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.

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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