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Meet the bitcoin generation: It’s good as gold (better!) for them – CNBC

Meet the bitcoin generation: It’s good as gold (better!) for them
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Nearly half of Americans are unsure of the legality of bitcoin, a new study last week suggests, yet a loyal group of its advocates embrace it as a symbol of financial and philosophical freedom. “I believe there is a strong chance that it may someday


Meet the bitcoin generation: It's good as gold (better!) for them
CNBC
Nearly half of Americans are unsure of the legality of bitcoin, a new study last week suggests, yet a loyal group of its advocates embrace it as a symbol of financial and philosophical freedom. "I believe there is a strong chance that it may someday ...

STRIM’s Crowdsale Starting on October 5, 2017

STRIM, the P2P on-demand sensor data mining and video streaming platform has recently revealed the date for its upcoming crowdsale, scheduled for October 5, 2017. STRIM platform is an innovative, decentralized platform, which enables P2P sensor data collection and video streaming by means of IoT devices. The company will offer its tokens for sale in … Continue reading STRIM’s Crowdsale Starting on October 5, 2017

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STRIM, the P2P on-demand sensor data mining and video streaming platform has recently revealed the date for its upcoming crowdsale, scheduled for October 5, 2017. STRIM platform is an innovative, decentralized platform, which enables P2P sensor data collection and video streaming by means of IoT devices. The company will offer its tokens for sale in … Continue reading STRIM’s Crowdsale Starting on October 5, 2017

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Bitcoin Price Surpasses $3950 by Recording 7.11% Increase as US-North Korea Tension Intensifies – CryptoCoinsNews

CryptoCoinsNewsBitcoin Price Surpasses $3950 by Recording 7.11% Increase as US-North Korea Tension IntensifiesCryptoCoinsNewsToday, on September 25, bitcoin price surged from $3,690 to $3,950, recording a staggering 7.11 percent increase over the past …


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Bitcoin Price Surpasses $3950 by Recording 7.11% Increase as US-North Korea Tension Intensifies
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Today, on September 25, bitcoin price surged from $3,690 to $3,950, recording a staggering 7.11 percent increase over the past 24 hours. Analysts attributed the overnight surge in the price of bitcoin to the intensifying conflict between the US and ...

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Neo ICO Token Wins Traders as China Worries Fade

The neo-US dollar (NEO/USD) exchange rate is showing signs of renewed life today. As a China-based project, neo (formerly antshares) perhaps bore most of the brunt of the decision by the country’s regulators to ban initial coin offerings (ICOs), falling nearly 40% over the day’s trading on September 4. However, neo appears to now be recovering, posting a strong 10% gain today amid a dull market. A general […]

The neo-US dollar (NEO/USD) exchange rate is showing signs of renewed life today. As a China-based project, neo (formerly antshares) perhaps bore most of the brunt of the decision by the country’s regulators to ban initial coin offerings (ICOs), falling nearly 40% over the day’s trading on September 4. However, neo appears to now be recovering, posting a strong 10% gain today amid a dull market. A general […]

Bitcoin: Check Your Sanctimony At The Door – Seeking Alpha


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Bitcoin: Check Your Sanctimony At The Door
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Sanctimonious arguments about the ‘true value’ of Bitcoin are worthless for traders looking to capitalize on the momentum. Negative moves after the China government blocks have run their course. We expect further upside in GBTC over and above the prior …


Seeking Alpha

Bitcoin: Check Your Sanctimony At The Door
Seeking Alpha
Sanctimonious arguments about the 'true value' of Bitcoin are worthless for traders looking to capitalize on the momentum. Negative moves after the China government blocks have run their course. We expect further upside in GBTC over and above the prior ...

Patientory’s Journey to Change Healthcare

Delivering a New Blockchain-Centric Patient Care Model

Blockchain healthcare company Patientory has been busy since Bitcoin Magazine first covered the organization in May.

The company, which is putting electronic medical records (EMRs) on an Ethereum-based blockchain for better security, has obtained funding and partnerships to help promote its concept. By the time it launches its enterprise solution, the company wants to give medical practitioners healthcare at their fingertips — and easy account settlement for patients and healthcare payers alike.

Patientory released its payment token, “PTOY,” on May 31. The three-day token sale raised $7.2 million from over 1,700 purchasers. The company is using the funding to launch its smart contract-based platform for EMR storage and patient payment processing.

“The healthcare system is fragmented,” explained Chrissa McFarlane, CEO of Patientory. As McFarlane pointed out, Patientory “really brings together the industry as a collective toward reducing costs and improving not only the U.S. healthcare infrastructure but the global healthcare ecosystem.”

Since its crowdsale, the company has focused on integrating with other networks to help build a decentralized ecosystem for healthcare participants. One of the most significant developments for Patientory came in late August when it announced its partnership with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger initiative.

Hyperledger follows the Linux Foundation’s model of building reference platforms for commonly-used technologies. What it did for Linux, it hopes to do for the blockchain. Just as there are multiple Linux distributions, the project will spawn a family of blockchain frameworks using code from a single reference platform, making it easier for the frameworks to interoperate with each other.

A key part of a smart contract-based platform is an oracle, an agent that derives information from a third-party information source; which Patientory will build to communicate with Hyperledger’s code.

But Hyperledger won’t be the group’s only such partnership.

“The future of the blockchain is that there will be multiple chains out there,” explained McFarlane. She expects to build oracles for those, too.

One of Patientory’s key goals is to integrate disparate processes in the healthcare system to produce end-to-end visibility.

“If we’re going to use the blockchain to really be the foundational layer for that interoperability, then the chains have to interact with each other and provide the same functionality,” McFarlane said.

The company is paying similar attention to payments integration. Blockchain-based digital cash network Dash has partnered with blockchain web services company BlockCypher to offer a grant program for organizations integrating their services. Patientory announced its participation in that program in August.

“Dash is purely digital cash, so we’re able to spearhead and accelerate the usage of digital currency for transactions in the health industry,” said McFarlane.

With this integration initiative, Patientory is focusing on healthcare payers. They can use the network for claims processing, finding patients securely and processing their claims transactions. Patients will also be able to use the system for settling payments.

Using the blockchain for payments between providers will drive efficiencies into a traditionally complex and bureaucratic system.

Patientory “decreases their transaction fees and overhead from an administrative level,” said McFarlane.

Patientory has been busy building relationships in other ways, too. McFarlane now chairs a blockchain working group; and July saw the company win an “innovation mention” in the #Patient2Consumer challenge organized by start-up network 1776 and the MedStar Institute for Innovation. Patientory is also active on the conference circuit and is involved in the Distributed: Health conference currently taking place in Nashville.

On the technical side, Patientory established its genesis block in July and launched its Alpha testnet.

Perhaps the biggest task facing the company now, though, is educating the market: It hopes to do so through the Patientory Foundation, the organization that orchestrated the crowdsale.

“A part of that at the Foundation level is to host events,” McFarlane said. “We promote the concept and providing an avenue for people to ask questions and learn about the process and how everything works in this space.”

The company is hoping to launch its enterprise solution and beta the 1.0 version of it by the end of this year. Its focus now is on proving its concept, scaling the platform and fostering adoption. The first half of 2017 may have been busy, but for Patientory, much is still to come.

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Delivering a New Blockchain-Centric Patient Care Model

Blockchain healthcare company Patientory has been busy since Bitcoin Magazine first covered the organization in May.

The company, which is putting electronic medical records (EMRs) on an Ethereum-based blockchain for better security, has obtained funding and partnerships to help promote its concept. By the time it launches its enterprise solution, the company wants to give medical practitioners healthcare at their fingertips — and easy account settlement for patients and healthcare payers alike.

Patientory released its payment token, “PTOY,” on May 31. The three-day token sale raised $7.2 million from over 1,700 purchasers. The company is using the funding to launch its smart contract-based platform for EMR storage and patient payment processing.

“The healthcare system is fragmented,” explained Chrissa McFarlane, CEO of Patientory. As McFarlane pointed out, Patientory “really brings together the industry as a collective toward reducing costs and improving not only the U.S. healthcare infrastructure but the global healthcare ecosystem.”

Since its crowdsale, the company has focused on integrating with other networks to help build a decentralized ecosystem for healthcare participants. One of the most significant developments for Patientory came in late August when it announced its partnership with the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger initiative.

Hyperledger follows the Linux Foundation’s model of building reference platforms for commonly-used technologies. What it did for Linux, it hopes to do for the blockchain. Just as there are multiple Linux distributions, the project will spawn a family of blockchain frameworks using code from a single reference platform, making it easier for the frameworks to interoperate with each other.

A key part of a smart contract-based platform is an oracle, an agent that derives information from a third-party information source; which Patientory will build to communicate with Hyperledger’s code.

But Hyperledger won’t be the group’s only such partnership.

“The future of the blockchain is that there will be multiple chains out there,” explained McFarlane. She expects to build oracles for those, too.

One of Patientory’s key goals is to integrate disparate processes in the healthcare system to produce end-to-end visibility.

“If we’re going to use the blockchain to really be the foundational layer for that interoperability, then the chains have to interact with each other and provide the same functionality,” McFarlane said.

The company is paying similar attention to payments integration. Blockchain-based digital cash network Dash has partnered with blockchain web services company BlockCypher to offer a grant program for organizations integrating their services. Patientory announced its participation in that program in August.

“Dash is purely digital cash, so we’re able to spearhead and accelerate the usage of digital currency for transactions in the health industry,” said McFarlane.

With this integration initiative, Patientory is focusing on healthcare payers. They can use the network for claims processing, finding patients securely and processing their claims transactions. Patients will also be able to use the system for settling payments.

Using the blockchain for payments between providers will drive efficiencies into a traditionally complex and bureaucratic system.

Patientory “decreases their transaction fees and overhead from an administrative level,” said McFarlane.

Patientory has been busy building relationships in other ways, too. McFarlane now chairs a blockchain working group; and July saw the company win an “innovation mention” in the #Patient2Consumer challenge organized by start-up network 1776 and the MedStar Institute for Innovation. Patientory is also active on the conference circuit and is involved in the Distributed: Health conference currently taking place in Nashville.

On the technical side, Patientory established its genesis block in July and launched its Alpha testnet.

Perhaps the biggest task facing the company now, though, is educating the market: It hopes to do so through the Patientory Foundation, the organization that orchestrated the crowdsale.

“A part of that at the Foundation level is to host events,” McFarlane said. “We promote the concept and providing an avenue for people to ask questions and learn about the process and how everything works in this space.”

The company is hoping to launch its enterprise solution and beta the 1.0 version of it by the end of this year. Its focus now is on proving its concept, scaling the platform and fostering adoption. The first half of 2017 may have been busy, but for Patientory, much is still to come.

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Dragonchain, Disney’s Answer to the Cryptocurrency Community

It seems like every day there’s a new and exciting application of the blockchain that pops up, clearly to remind us all that this wonderful new technology isn’t just for the proliferation and standardization of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its ilk. From the hands of a small team of Blockchain technology advocates who first developed … Continue reading Dragonchain, Disney’s Answer to the Cryptocurrency Community

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It seems like every day there’s a new and exciting application of the blockchain that pops up, clearly to remind us all that this wonderful new technology isn’t just for the proliferation and standardization of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its ilk. From the hands of a small team of Blockchain technology advocates who first developed … Continue reading Dragonchain, Disney’s Answer to the Cryptocurrency Community

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Korea’s Largest Messenger App Launching Exchange With 110+ Cryptocurrencies

Korea's Largest Smartphone Messenger App Launching Crypto Exchange With 110+ CryptocurrenciesThe operator of Kakao Stock, a popular Korean securities trading app based on the country’s number one smartphone messenger app Kakao Talk, is launching a cryptocurrency exchange called Upbit. Over 110 cryptocurrencies will be supported initially including bitcoin, ether, and litecoin. The company says that it will be the largest digital currency exchange in South […]

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Korea's Largest Smartphone Messenger App Launching Crypto Exchange With 110+ Cryptocurrencies

The operator of Kakao Stock, a popular Korean securities trading app based on the country’s number one smartphone messenger app Kakao Talk, is launching a cryptocurrency exchange called Upbit. Over 110 cryptocurrencies will be supported initially including bitcoin, ether, and litecoin. The company says that it will be the largest digital currency exchange in South Korea.

Also read: Popular Korean Talk-Based Stock Trading App Adding Cryptocurrency Exchange

Korea’s Largest Crypto Exchange Launching

Korea's Largest Digital Currency Exchange Launching Soon With 110+ CryptocurrenciesSouth Korean fintech company Dunamu Inc. announced on Monday that it will beta launch a cryptocurrency exchange called “Upbit” next month. News.Bitcoin.com first reported on the company planning to launch this exchange back in August. The company claims that Upbit will be the largest digital currency exchange in South Korea.

Launched in April 2012, Dunamu is affiliated with Kakao Corp, the company behind Kakao Talk, Korea’s number one smartphone messenger app with over 200 million users worldwide. Kakao Talk is installed on over 95% of smartphones in South Korea. Dunamu also operates a popular securities trading app called Kakao Stock, a social trading service based on Kakao Talk.

Korea's Largest Digital Currency Exchange Launching Soon With 110+ CryptocurrenciesUpbit will be accessible through the Android and iOS platforms, as well as on desktop computers through its website. The service will also offer coin investment guides with analyses of various altcoins. In addition, the new exchange will also offer internal Bitgo wallets to their users as well as Kakao Pay authentication for added security, its website states.

Pre-registration for Upbit begins on Monday, September 25. According to Edaily, pre-registered users will be entered into a drawing to receive one coin from the list of cryptocurrencies which will trade on Upbit, including bitcoin.

Exclusive Agreement with Bittrex

Korea's Largest Digital Currency Exchange Launching Soon With 110+ CryptocurrenciesIn order to launch Upbit, Dunamu signed an exclusive partnership agreement with the U.S. Digital currency exchange Bittrex, which supports over 190 cryptocurrencies, according to its website.

Initially, Upbit will offer the trading of over 110 cryptocurrencies, KBS World Radio, detailed:

Upbit will trade over 110 different digital currencies including bitcoin, ethereum, ripple and litecoin. In comparison, existing exchanges in South Korea trade around six to eight virtual currencies.

Currently, users in South Korea wanting to trade most cryptocurrencies have to “transfer money to overseas exchanges such as Bittrex, Poloniex, etc,” the Korea Financial Times explained. They would encounter problems such as “time delays, complicated account management, and language barriers,” the news outlet noted, adding that Upbit will eliminate these problems and will therefore “raise the domestic virtual currency trading environment to a world-class level.”

What do you think of Upbit? Will it be as popular as Bittrex or Poloniex? Let us know in the comments section below.


Images courtesy of Kakao Corp and Upbit.


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Bitcoin’s price is spiking by 7 percent as traders shake off China fears – CNBC


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Bitcoin’s price is spiking by 7 percent as traders shake off China fears
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In addition, recent reports said regulators in China have ordered bitcoin exchanges to close hurt the digital currency’s price. “In my opinion, the markets overreacted to the China news. In the short term, it was bad news, but long term the
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Bitcoin's price is spiking by 7 percent as traders shake off China fears
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In addition, recent reports said regulators in China have ordered bitcoin exchanges to close hurt the digital currency's price. "In my opinion, the markets overreacted to the China news. In the short term, it was bad news, but long term the ...
Wait and Watch? Bitcoin Prices Hover Near Make or Break LevelCoinDesk
Is China still keen to develop a sovereign digital currency after ban on bitcoin trading?South China Morning Post
Bitcoin is too big, too real, to be baselessly criticized and it can have repercussionsEthereum World News (blog)
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Litecoin: Price Analysis, September 25 – CoinTelegraph


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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Litecoin: Price Analysis, September 25
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Bitcoin has been trading in a small range for the past two days. It is facing resistance at the 3,800 levels. Today, even if the digital currency breaks out of the downtrend line, it is unlikely to race away towards the highs. It will face resistance
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Bitcoin has been trading in a small range for the past two days. It is facing resistance at the 3,800 levels. Today, even if the digital currency breaks out of the downtrend line, it is unlikely to race away towards the highs. It will face resistance ...
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash Price Going for Major Marks – Sep 25 AnalysisEthereum World News (blog)
Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Forecast – Prices Still in ConsolidationNasdaq

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Bitcoin is popping – Business Insider

Business InsiderBitcoin is poppingBusiness InsiderReports on September 14 that Chinese regulators would require exchanges to voluntary shut bitcoin trading triggered a sell-off of nearly $1,000, bringing the price of the cryptocurrency below $3,000 for…


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Bitcoin is popping
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Reports on September 14 that Chinese regulators would require exchanges to voluntary shut bitcoin trading triggered a sell-off of nearly $1,000, bringing the price of the cryptocurrency below $3,000 for the first time in over a month. Within hours ...

Chinese Autonomous Robot Dentist Successfully Completes Its First Procedure

TheMerkle CHinese Robot DentistThe world of robotics is introducing some interesting changes to our society as we know it. While not all robots are out to take our jobs, it will be interesting to see how things evolve in this regard. In China, we now have seen the first robot dentist capable of fitting implants in a patient’s mouth. There is no direct human involvement whatsoever, although there will always be some degree of oversight. This development won’t make going to the dentist any less scary, though. Robot Dentists Are Sorely Needed Although most people may not realize it, there is a severe shortage of

TheMerkle CHinese Robot Dentist

The world of robotics is introducing some interesting changes to our society as we know it. While not all robots are out to take our jobs, it will be interesting to see how things evolve in this regard. In China, we now have seen the first robot dentist capable of fitting implants in a patient’s mouth. There is no direct human involvement whatsoever, although there will always be some degree of oversight. This development won’t make going to the dentist any less scary, though.

Robot Dentists Are Sorely Needed

Although most people may not realize it, there is a severe shortage of qualified dentists around the world. This situation is especially troublesome in China, by the looks of things. As a result, the country is preparing to experiment further with robot dentists, even though it is only in a limited scope for the time being.  Fitting implants in a patient’s mouth is something a robot can do, especially considering that the process can take valuable time away from addressing bigger problems.

The first trial of this type was successfully completed in China earlier this week. A robot dentist fitted two new teeth into a patient’s mouth without requiring any human intervention during the procedure. It is good to know that medical staff was present just in case something went awry, though. Experiments like these are often cause for concern, but things turned out just fine in the end. That is a good thing, although it is only the first step along the way.

Very few people consider how long it takes to implant two new teeth into someone’s mouth. In this case, the robot dentist needed about an hour to successfully perform the procedure. As always, there is a certain margin for error when fitting such implants. In this case, the robot reached the required standard for this type of operation. Both teeth were implanted within 0.2mm of where they needed to be.

China is a country where many things are lacking, especially when it comes to qualified dentists. Moreover, the nation is prone to frequent surgical errors, which raises a lot of concerns. Deploying robots to take over a large part of the world makes a lot of sense in this regard, even though it may not be the perfect solution either. Just because this trial was successful doesn’t mean every Chinese individual will be treated by robot dentists in the future.

This particular robot was created by the Fourth Military Medical University and the Beihang University Robot Institute. It took four years to get to this point, indicating a lot of time and effort has been poured into this experiment. Bridging the gap between innovative technology and a dentist’s expertise is not easy by any means. What’s more, the implants used for this procedure were 3D printed. It is good to see emerging technologies coming together in the medical sector.

It is evident that there is a growing need for robots in China’s dental industry. With around 400 million citizens requiring new teeth and lacking sufficient experts to perform those procedures, there is a lot of work to be done moving forward. Although it remains to be seen how many of those interventions will be performed by robots in the coming years, it is good to have an alternative solution if push comes to shove.

Press Release – Why Will BMCHAIN’s Capitalization Grow?

bmchain logoThe founders of BMCHAIN presented a strategy for the development of the project in the coming months and shared further plans to promote and increase the capitalization of the platform. The first results of the completed preIСO allowed us to reconsider the positioning of the project and to outline the points of its growth. To achieve maximum capitalization and increase the active audience of the platform in a short time, BMCHAIN ​​team developed a plan for the development of the project for the next six months. The list of planned tasks aimed at the development of the project and the growth of

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The founders of BMCHAIN presented a strategy for the development of the project in the coming months and shared further plans to promote and increase the capitalization of the platform. The first results of the completed preIСO allowed us to reconsider the positioning of the project and to outline the points of its growth.

To achieve maximum capitalization and increase the active audience of the platform in a short time, BMCHAIN ​​team developed a plan for the development of the project for the next six months.

The list of planned tasks aimed at the development of the project and the growth of its capitalization:

  1. Sale of goods and services for BMT tokens with a discount of 25 – 50%*:
  • Implementation of business courses for BMT tokens;
  • Sales of services and products of subsidiary services and structures for BMT tokens;
  • Connection of the first 100 partners from different areas to the sales of goods and services for BMT tokens.

* For example, a product or service costs $300. The same item can be bought for tokens at a price of $150. A discount will be fixed in fiat currency. Any partner will sell the product or service with a significant discount, so that it is more profitable for the buyer to make a purchase in the tokens. This model should lead to an increase in the token cost and demand over time to purchase services and goods in BMT.

  1. Listing of BMT tokens on small exchanges;
  2. Negotiations with major exchanges for BMT listing;
  3. Negotiations on partnership with big banks and other large private and public entities;
  4. Opening an office in Moscow;
  5. Expansion of the network of partners for effective promotion of the project results to the crypto community;
  • Publication of news about the development of the project on more than 100 crypto-currency websites and 10 major online media.
  • Publication of weekly reports for project participants on current results and plans for platform development.
  1. Implementation of the affiliate program in the core of the project.
  2. Carrying out a comparative analysis of Steem, Golos and BMCHAIN ​​parameters and preparing a plan to justify and calculate the indicators that ensure the rapid growth of BMCHAIN ​​project parameters, which can be achieved, based on the current capabilities of the BM community and its active growth by attracting a new audience.
  3. Deployment of the test network on a separate blockchain solution for testing platform functionality.

At the moment the ICO project is live. Participants are entitled to the 20% discount, which will be valid until September 24.

In total, more than $ 1,000,000 has been collected in the framework of the crowdsale. Thus, the soft cap, set before the ICO, was successfully achieved. As of September 21 more than 15,000 people have registered in the system, 3,222 partners confirmed their desire to connect their project to the platform and accept the BMT token as the payment for goods or services.

A major role in the development of the project is played by the decision of the largest business audience in Russia to join the platform even before its development, which means that more than 200,000 entrepreneurs by generating demand for a token and creating activity on the BMCHAIN ​​site will broadcast the advantages of the platform in various channels and spheres.

Brief history of the foundation of the BMCHAIN.IO project and the logic of the decisions made

The idea of ​​a digital decentralized site for the BM community and other interested communities arose long ago. However, a real opportunity to begin its implementation appeared only in 2016 after the launch of the first social network Steemit.com and its Russian version, the Golos project.

Having studied the possibilities of high-performance blockchain solutions based on Graphene and having carried out the basic integration with the existing one, it became clear that the use of the existing solution didn’t allow implementing the mechanics and the system of economic incentives necessary for organizing effective interaction between the members of the BM community and other interested structures.

As a result, by the spring of 2017 a decision has been made to develop the blockchain system that would allow the implementation of all the necessary parameters and economic incentives for the efficient operation of the decentralized platform.

Analysis of the parameters of existing solutions demonstrated that their main disadvantages were the low level of involvement of new users in the work and weakly week economic justification of new tokens, which reduced the stability of such a system.

Investigations of the possibilities of socially oriented blockchain decisions were carried out jointly with the specialists of Analytics Insight (AI2).

“AI2” company, having advanced experience in modeling complex socio-economic systems and unique patented software MIDAS, proposed the introduction of its developments, which automatically calculated optimal parameters of complex economic systems in the core of the developed blockchain platform.

The use of the MIDAS econometric algorithms should allow us to calculate the most important parameters of the blockchain system in such a way that the key performance indicator chosen by users, for example, the weekly growth of the number of active users increasing at the maximum possible rates with the most efficient use of current system resources. To do this, it is necessary to calculate the volume of required emissions and the coefficients of user’s rewards in such a way that the scenarios useful for the system and users receive maximal profit.

In the end, it became obvious that it is necessary to calculate the user’s reputation coefficient, which determined the amount of rewards for both the user and those with whom they would communicate within the framework of the system being created.

After the completion of a series of tests and confirmation of the high probability of implementing such a system, preparation for the ICO has been started. With a large audience and proven performance indicators, BM and Analytics Insight companies presented the joint BMCHAIN.io platform at the blockchain conference in St. Petersburg, which took place on July 22, 2017.

A month later, the presentation of the BMCHAIN ​​gave the start to the preliminary fund-raising for financing the development and launch of the project.

The preliminary crowdsale allowed to collect about $ 1,000,000, but also revealed significant shortcomings in the project positioning model, which led to the reduction in the fundraising period and simplification of the mechanism for conducting it. The original model of attracting funding assumed active involvement of an external audience of people unfamiliar with the results and principles of the work of the BM community. However, the ICO process itself demonstrated a low percentage of involvement of users unfamiliar with BM due to the high complexity of the project concept and the absence of some important parameters such as participation in the platform of partners and consultants famous in the cryptocurrency community, a clear scheme of the project monetization, as well as other risks existing in the crypto economy.

In order to immerse the project audience in the process of the platform development, the BMCHAIN ​​team plans to publish weekly reports on the work and results achieved in the blogs Golos, Medium, Reddit, Bitcointalk, and via email and Telegram mailings.

This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views held by any employees of The Merkle. This is not investment, trading, or gambling advice. Always conduct your own independent research.