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Germany Won't Tax You for Buying Coffee With Bitcoin
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Germany won't tax bitcoin users for using the cryptocurrency as a means of payment, the Ministry of Finance has said. The guidance, published Tuesday, sets Germany apart from the U.S., where the Internal Revenue Service treats bitcoin as property for ...
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AriseBank ICO Fraud Case May Ensnare Additional Parties

A court filing indicates that the SEC-appointed receiver for AriseBank is searching for undisclosed assets and investigating third-party involvement.

A court filing indicates that the SEC-appointed receiver for AriseBank is searching for undisclosed assets and investigating third-party involvement.

ValueCash Launches ICO Backed By Decentralized & Self-Governing Blockchain That Allows Users To Earn Tokens While Using Crypto To Pay For Goods & Services

Many credit card companies offer the moon to consumers such as free gifts or reward spending programs, but those perks seemed to be missing in the world of Cryptocurrency, that is, until now. ValueCash is the first Cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem that rewards its users’ earnings and spending. Los Angeles, CA – Feb 28th 2018, ValueCash announced this week that they will be launching an Initial Coin Offering that is sure to stir up the competition in the world of cryptocurrency trading. ValueCash is a decentralized cryptocurrency and exchange where its token holders can make payments for goods and services while

Many credit card companies offer the moon to consumers such as free gifts or reward spending programs, but those perks seemed to be missing in the world of Cryptocurrency, that is, until now. ValueCash is the first Cryptocurrency exchange ecosystem that rewards its users’ earnings and spending.

Los Angeles, CA – Feb 28th 2018, ValueCash announced this week that they will be launching an Initial Coin Offering that is sure to stir up the competition in the world of cryptocurrency trading. ValueCash is a decentralized cryptocurrency and exchange where its token holders can make payments for goods and services while simultaneously earning new ValueCash through their purchase and acceptance. ValueCash is doing something never done before by offering rewards based on spending and other ICO’s are taking notice.

The ValueCash team has over 15 years of experience and is comprised of Developers, IT Consultants, Entreprenuers and Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts. The ValueCash Ecosystem is designed to contribute its Distinct Protocol as a key component of the growing Crypto-Economy and a market driving catalyst to reform the existing status quo of the Commerce, Exchange, Escrow Sector and Blockchain Technology as a whole. ValueCash is limited; Decentralized, and Community Driven Cryptocurrency that allows anyone to earn substantial rewards on a successful transaction. ValueCash can be obtained through The PoT Protocol “Proof of Trade”, The POS “Proof of Stake”, and Buying. The PoT protocol is configured to put power into the hands of the Crypto-Community by becoming Validators of their transactions, while also creating 10% new ValueCash coin as a reward.

During a recent press conference, the company spokesperson for ValueCash was quoted as saying, “Cryptocurrency investors and users are going to love this ICO! Unlike other cryptocurrencies, we offer rewards to our users which will have consumers flocking to our exchange. The more users we have, the higher our token price goes, the happier our investors are! It’s an exciting time to be a part of ValueCash.” He went on to say, “We also kept our end users in mind and have been able to develop a blockchain with unmatched speed, security and of course NO transaction fees.”

The ValueCash ICO will open for public sales on March 5th 2018. At that time 2 Million tokens will become available at a cost of $1.00 USD per token. Bonuses will also be given out depending on the stage token purchases are made. Once all tokens have been sold the ICO will close.

To learn more about the ValueCash ICO visit their official website at https://www.valuecash.com or download their Whitepaper directly by clicking here. You can also speak directly with the Team by clicking here.

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Hamster Marketplace’s Experience in Creating Community

The success of any modern project is to some extent measured by the size of its audience. That is what defines how profitable and powerful the proposed service, product, or app will be. The Hamster Marketplace team has developed its own strategy for attracting and retaining users and forming a community around the marketplace, a strategy we will share in this post. Kickstarter Startups and Their Audience Hamster Marketplace is oriented toward recent crowdfunding projects from Kickstarter and other similar platforms. According to our estimates, each Kickstarter project in the electronics category has an average audience of 1380 people. If

The success of any modern project is to some extent measured by the size of its audience. That is what defines how profitable and powerful the proposed service, product, or app will be. The Hamster Marketplace team has developed its own strategy for attracting and retaining users and forming a community around the marketplace, a strategy we will share in this post.

Kickstarter Startups and Their Audience

Hamster Marketplace is oriented toward recent crowdfunding projects from Kickstarter and other similar platforms. According to our estimates, each Kickstarter project in the electronics category has an average audience of 1380 people. If a partnership began between such a vendor and Hamster Marketplace, the former could bring along about one third of its own audience, which is about 460 people. We are citing the most pessimistic figures here to avoid setting these expectations too high.

By attracting their own users, the electronics manufacturers acquire an understandable and convenient retail platform and are freed from the expenses associated with creating their own stores. But much more important is what we call audience interpenetration.

Imagine a situation where one hundred projects bring 460 people each from their own audiences to Hamster Marketplace, offering an easy and convenient way to acquire their products. And these newly minted manufacturers are not just working to further their own product, but also supporting their neighbors: almost all vendors who will operate on Hamster Marketplace have audiences with similar interests. But most important is that the platform will host real manufacturers with their own products, not first-stage startups.

If we reframe this situation in numbers, we have 276 thousand users from just 600 vendors (if funds raised during the crowdsale reach a soft cap of $2 million). According to our estimates, each user will make 0.4 purchases per year, which puts the retail volume of the marketplace for the same period at $14.35 million. If we raise $7 million, we get 900 vendors and an initial audience of 414 thousand buyers (0.5 purchases per person), which gives $26.91 million in sales volume in the first year. As you can see, the higher the number of vendors, the more active the users, due to the exchange of experience and opinions.  

From Early Adopters to a Wide Audience

The audience for any project always begins from some core or backbone, which we talked about earlier in attracting the audiences of the vendors themselves. The bigger and more numerous the core, the faster the service will grow and the more successful it will ultimately be. The size of the initial audience at a project’s launch determines how many people will use the service at its peak popularity. Of course, there are known exceptions, where individual projects and their audiences grew practically without end, but in Hamster Marketplace’s case, with it being a niche project, that is physically impossible.

Early adopters on their own are insufficient to form a fully fledged audience, but it is their level of engagement that demonstrates how much the project can be trusted. The average consumer is suspicious and skittish: it’s risky to buy something on a new platform, especially when eBay, Amazon, or AliExpress are right there. It will be the initial audience from vendors that will facilitate the necessary trust in the platform, which will transform into trust from the average consumer.

Classic marketing tools will play a sizable role in this process. Hamster Marketplace is not against using “common” tools for generating leads, using context advertising, spots on mass media, overviews, and other mechanisms for increasing the audience. However, advertising cannot be effective without a real user experience from early users, which the general public can use to make their decision that the platform is worth its attention and trust. To sum up, we are considering the following channels for attracting users:

  •         the manufacturers’ own audience (about 460 people per vendor);
  •         the audience overlap effect due to similar views and interests;
  •         classic lead generation tools;
  •         a competitive and transparent mechanism for the marketplace’s operations.

The only possible path for well-balanced development is to gradually transition from the vendors’ individual audiences to a monolithic community of buyers, a portion of whom came directly from outside.

Internal Mechanics of Hamster Marketplace

Establishing a trusting relationship between buyer and seller is extremely important, but it’s even better when both also have “fallback” systems that are regulated by the marketplace itself as an impartial and independent actor.

We believe that one of the advantages of Hamster Marketplace for buyers will be the blockchain-based intelligent delivery and defect monitoring systems. Why blockchain? First and foremost, because the blockchain is an unchangeable structure that eliminates the very possibility of outside tampering. Blockchain guarantees to buyers that they will receive only complete and truthful information on the manufacturer, and to manufacturers that their merits and flawless work will not remain hidden.

Product uniqueness, transparent operations, and honesty toward users are the principles governing how the decentralized retail platform Hamster Marketplace operates. And it is these three principles, along with the marketing steps and mechanisms for attracting an audience described above, that will underpin the marketplace’s inevitable success with buyers and tech fans.

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.

These Are The Reasons Why Bill Gates Is Wrong About Cryptocurrency

It was widely reported yesterday that the planet’s second richest man, Bill Gates, is no lover of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The founder of Microsoft claimed that in their short existence digital currencies have already been a “fairly direct” cause of deaths. Gates Slams Cryptocurrencies over Connections to Crime During an “ask me anything” session … Continue reading These Are The Reasons Why Bill Gates Is Wrong About Cryptocurrency

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It was widely reported yesterday that the planet’s second richest man, Bill Gates, is no lover of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The founder of Microsoft claimed that in their short existence digital currencies have already been a “fairly direct” cause of deaths.

Gates Slams Cryptocurrencies over Connections to Crime

During an “ask me anything” session on Reddit yesterday, Gates stated that cryptocurrency has been responsible for various evils. Amongst these the multi-billionaire alleges that Bitcoin and other digital coins have been the cause of many deaths:

“Right now cryptocurrencies are used for buying Fentanyl and other drugs so it is a rare technology that has caused deaths in a fairly direct way.”

He also cited money laundering, tax evasion and terrorist funding as reasons why he’s not in favour of the revolutionary payment methods. He went on to claim that it’s a good thing when governments are able to root out tax dodgers.

In Gates’ blanket damnation of cryptos, he neglects to acknowledge several things, however. Firstly, and most strikingly, is the fact that every crime he mentions is equally possible using paper money. As long as bank notes have existed, people have dealt drugs, laundered money, and avoided taxation using them. The fact that a crime is made possible because of a technology or tool does not make it inherently evil. Assuming so would be akin to affiliating Gates’ own company with terrorist organising and darkweb drug dealing just because some of those that have carried out such acts used a Windows operating system at some point during their crime. Obviously, such an accusation is absolutely ridiculous.

Next, it can be argued that the allegations about avoiding taxation and cryptocurrencies contributing to deaths are contradictory. After all, is it not because of the tax system that the US is able to fund the bombing of Syria in which over 10,000 civilians have been killed in this year alone?

Of course, taxation pays for positive things too, just like cryptocurrencies facilitate many societal goods. Gates overlooks near-instant cross-border payments, giving access to cheap and easy to use banking-style services to those in the third world who lack them, and the removal of leech-like middlemen from global financial institutions when he condemns cryptocurrency. Frankly, this refusal to acknowledge the good as well as the evil is incredibly narrowminded.

Finally, Gates completely overlooks the fact that people will find a way to take drugs irrespective of the payment method they use to buy them. People took drugs long before cryptocurrency was invented and would continue to do so if the powers that be were somehow able to stamp out the use of Bitcoin et al. entirely. Cryptocurrency may well have facilitated the sale of drugs on the darkweb but thanks to eBay-style rating systems on pages like now-defunct AlphaBay and others, sellers of bad quality, dangerous substances are unlikely to last long in the almost free online markets. Compare this to dealers pushing god knows what on street corners across the globe to anyone with enough paper dollars to buy from them.

Evidently, there is a problem when people wish to escape from reality in such a way that they’re willing to put potentially toxic substances into their bodies. However, chastising the method they used to pay for them does nothing whatsoever to tackle the issue. Societies like the Netherlands have proved that when given access to clean narcotics and safe places in which to use them, the numbers of those taking intoxicating substances (and subsequently dying from it) decline. It’s frankly absurd to blame cryptocurrencies for the myriad of issues that stem from years of prohibition and the demonisation of drug users.

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Multiversum: Relations for Complex Entities

Multiversum was developed to tackle the elephant in the room: the simplistic nature of first generation blockchain. While blockchain has some amazing features – immutability, transparency and security – it has major issues in terms of scalability and speed. Recent high-profile examples showcased the inefficiencies of the technology. In December, CrypoKitties exposed the fragility of Ethereum, often banded the super computer of blockchain. The entire platform ground to a halt as the craze for CryptoKitties skyrocketed for a few weeks, and then just as suddenly disappeared from view. Transaction speeds were killed and fees climbed dramatically. Multiversum founder and visionary

Multiversum was developed to tackle the elephant in the room: the simplistic nature of first generation blockchain. While blockchain has some amazing features – immutability, transparency and security – it has major issues in terms of scalability and speed.

Recent high-profile examples showcased the inefficiencies of the technology. In December, CrypoKitties exposed the fragility of Ethereum, often banded the super computer of blockchain. The entire platform ground to a halt as the craze for CryptoKitties skyrocketed for a few weeks, and then just as suddenly disappeared from view. Transaction speeds were killed and fees climbed dramatically.

Multiversum founder and visionary Andrea Taini discovered blockchain and could see its attraction. “But I could also see its limitations.” he says. “Organizations such as government or large corporates have complex systems with myriad layers of data distributed across the ecosystem. Data is the lifeblood of any corporate but it is not laid out in neat lines of blocks. It is meshed throughout the systems with complex relational links. This is where blockchain falls down. It is not mature or sophisticated enough to work with multilayered companies.”

Taini developed Multiversum technology to address this. The Multiversum blockchain pushes traditional blockchain beyond its current limits, by enhancing the data layer through self-verifying and distributed structures of organized data entities, related one to another by symbolic links.

This technology set the foundations for a decentralized and distributed system of coherent self-verifying transactions: Multiversum blockchain.

Multiversum allows, instead of the existing blockchain simple data model, the creation of a Relational Crypto Database (an advanced and organized data storage solution) which can handle not just a single data-type, but a series of data grouped in graphs of complex data structures related to one another. Relations are now the first-class citizens of the blockchain and are assured by cryptographic methods.

Therefore, Multiversum is an evolved blockchain technology, offering unique features to overcome the previously analyzed inconveniences, with a set a crypto-validation and distribution techniques fit for every environment: administrative, industrial, financial and governmental.

Find out more from the team themselves on their Telegram channel.

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.

XinFin’s XDC Protocol to provide smart-contracts for Bitcoin and upcoming National cryptocurrencies

XinFin Hybrid Blockchain network, which is going through third week of it’s token sale today announced that it’s XDC protocol is equipped to support existing FIAT payment methods, Bitcoin BTC and upcoming nationally issued cryptocurrencies on it’s tradefinex.org platform. The XDC protocol will also support Ripple’s XRP, Litecoin LTC and Bitcoincash BCH, the four very liquid cryptocurrencies that do not provide smart-contracts capabilities currently. XinFin is the first of it’s kind hybrid blockchain protocol forked from ethereum and quorum. It is architected to work on PBFT+stake based consensus and clocks 500 TPS currently aiming to clock 2000 TPS by year

XinFin Hybrid Blockchain network, which is going through third week of it’s token sale today announced that it’s XDC protocol is equipped to support existing FIAT payment methods, Bitcoin BTC and upcoming nationally issued cryptocurrencies on it’s tradefinex.org platform.

The XDC protocol will also support Ripple’s XRP, Litecoin LTC and Bitcoincash BCH, the four very liquid cryptocurrencies that do not provide smart-contracts capabilities currently.

XinFin is the first of it’s kind hybrid blockchain protocol forked from ethereum and quorum. It is architected to work on PBFT+stake based consensus and clocks 500 TPS currently aiming to clock 2000 TPS by year end. It is aimed at serving the $50 trillion global trade and finance market with it’s marketplace tradefinex.org bringing together global trade associations, buyers, suppliers and financiers as well as the regulatory bodies.

Global trade ecosystem today lacks a credible platform for cross border secure smart contracts, instant payments and mitigation of counter party risks and provision of credit collaterals using digital assets. XinFin’s XDC protocol and the tradefinex.org marketplace has already rolled out minimum viable product that has completed over 10+ pilot projects successfully. The utilization of funds from the token sale will be utilized for ecosystem expansion and growing institutional partnerships.

XinFin has rolled out XDCE, an ERC 20 token with a swappable ratio of 1:1 with XDC protocol that will have more liquidity and wider reach in global markets. It has already raised over $3.5 Million including private sale, institutional contribution and it’s ongoing ICO.

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.

WSJ: SEC Launches Cryptocurrency Probe

In the US, the SEC has launched a probe into ICO activities and crypto business, WSJ reports. #NEWS

In the US, the SEC has launched a probe into ICO activities and crypto business, WSJ reports. #NEWS

Bitcoin edges lower, then pares some losses, after news that SEC is investigating cryptocurrencies – CNBC


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Bitcoin edges lower, then pares some losses, after news that SEC is investigating cryptocurrencies
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Bitcoin initially edged lower by around 2 percent following the report, but pared some of those losses during early Asian trade. The digital currency last traded at $10,335.35, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index, which tracks prices from

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Bitcoin edges lower, then pares some losses, after news that SEC is investigating cryptocurrencies
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Bitcoin initially edged lower by around 2 percent following the report, but pared some of those losses during early Asian trade. The digital currency last traded at $10,335.35, according to CoinDesk's bitcoin price index, which tracks prices from ...

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The Number of Bitcoin Transactions Using SegWit Doubled In 2 Days, Here’s Why That Matters – Forbes


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The Number of Bitcoin Transactions Using SegWit Doubled In 2 Days, Here’s Why That Matters
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Over the past couple of weeks, a few key entities in the Bitcoin ecosystem have rolled out enhanced support for SegWit, which has led to greater capacity for transactions in each new block. More specifically, the percentage of transactions on the

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The Number of Bitcoin Transactions Using SegWit Doubled In 2 Days, Here's Why That Matters
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Viola.AI Announces Worldwide Community-Choice Campaign for The Name, Look and Persona for The World’s Smartest Love Advisor

SINGAPORE, 28 Feb 2018 – The world’s first Blockchain & AI driven Marketplace for love, Viola.AI is the solution to the current dating and relationships challenges worldwide. She will be the first dating and relationship A.I. that evolves with the users to help them in the stages of dating, couple-hood to marriage. Viola.AI will serve users from helping people find love, helping romance blossom, and helping sustain the relationship right till their twilight years. The team of Viola.AI, who is also behind the dating giant Lunch Actually Group with over 14 years of success record and regional presence in Asia,

SINGAPORE, 28 Feb 2018 – The world’s first Blockchain & AI driven Marketplace for love, Viola.AI is the solution to the current dating and relationships challenges worldwide. She will be the first dating and relationship A.I. that evolves with the users to help them in the stages of dating, couple-hood to marriage. Viola.AI will serve users from helping people find love, helping romance blossom, and helping sustain the relationship right till their twilight years.

The team of Viola.AI, who is also behind the dating giant Lunch Actually Group with over 14 years of success record and regional presence in Asia, has sold out their pre-sale 5 days early back in January 2018 and recently clinched The Investors Awards win at the prestigious d10e ICO Pitching Competition in Cayman Islands.

As the next move in a series of major initiatives, Viola.AI announced that it will give the power to the community to choose and vote for the name, look, and persona for its future lifetime A.I Advisor in a campaign targeting the worldwide community.

The campaign is aimed to decentralize and empower the strong and passionate Viola.AI community to decide on the A.I that they will use once the MVP is launched in May 2018.

With this decentralization initiative, the worldwide community will get to choose and vote for the name for their future lifetime A.I Advisor, how she would look, as well as her key personality traits in different cultures and communities.

Co-Founder and CEO of Viola.AI, Violet Lim, said, “Our passionate and growing community is the key driver to the success of our project, and we are thankful to have such dedicated community members who have been very vocal in showing their support and what Viola.AI means to them. We want our A.I to be used by all people from different cultures, different nationalities and different creeds. And that is why we are giving the power and opportunity to our community to let them decide on the name for the World’s Smartest Love Advisor.”

Viola.AI, who is currently gearing towards its public sale on 14 March 2018, will be launching the Community-Choice campaign after the token sale is concluded.

Harnessing on AI, blockchain technology and trustless smart contracts, Viola.AI is equipped with several core capabilities:

The Smartest Love AI: Provides highly personalized matching and discreet relationship advices which evolves according to the user’s relationship status by employing A.I. with personalised machine learning engine and natural language empathy. Viola.AI will be trained by the Group’s 13 years of accumulated service experience, 3500 datasets and 1.1 billion data points.

Real ID verification: Protects users with visual recognition technology. The deployment of decentralized system and blockchain technology enables high security and authentication of users, preventing any identity theft and protecting against data tampering and the infrastructure of Viola.AI.

Community Support: Offers strong community support via crowd wisdom with quality content and advice that addresses user’s enquiry. Viola.AI will reward users for their good and helpful advice.

Recommended-based marketplace: Provides timely recommendations to address each user’s needs for goods and services from merchants, experts and service providers.

Secure smart wallets and contract system: All transactions within Viola.AI are controlled by a secure wallet and smart contracts to ensure that users can interact and transact with contributors and merchants at ease as all parties will receive the agreed-upon revenue share or commissions.  

With the strong team of Viola.AI as well as their line-up of ICO Advisors, ranging from serial entrepreneurs, blockchain and investment specialists, to tech investors with huge network, the team is confident to achieve their mission of changing the world, one relationship at a time and positively impacting billions of people worldwide. The company’s co-founders Violet Lim and Jamie Lee have successfully built Asia’s dating giant for the past 14 years and their ICO Advisors include:

  • Prakash Somosundram, Serial Entrepreneur, Fintech Influencer, Singapore Government Advisor
  • Kenneth Tan, Co-Founder of FundYourselfNow and Blockchain Writer
  • Alex Haxton, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Consultant
  • Peter Sin, Co-Founder of Singapore Bitcoin Club
  • Caleb Yap, Co-Founder of Singapore Bitcoin Club
  • Brian Condenanza, ICO Advisor, Blockchain and Bitcoin Early Adopter
  • Phillippe Rodriguez, President of Bitcoin Association in France and founder of Avolta Partner
  • Michael Reece, Blockchain entrepreneur and Co-Founder of NicheAdNetwork
  • Bruno Vanryb, Serial Entrepreneur who founded Avanquest, a listed and global software publisher
  • Hong Ting Wong, early adopter of cryptocurrencies, a serial entrepreneur, founder & CEO of Botbot.AI and 2359 Media
  • Lisa Clampitt, Founder and President of Matchmaking Institute in New York
  • Dato Larry Gan Nyap Liou, Managing Partner at Accenture for 16 years, invested and worked with innovative technologies
  • Warren Whitlock, top social influencer in blockchain space

Community users as well as the public can find out more about the community-choice campaign or about Viola.AI at the next AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Facebook Live on Friday, 9 Mar 2018 at 9am – 10am (UTC+8) where co-founders Jamie and Violet will answer any questions they might have about the project. Users can join in and ask questions to the team via Telegram or Facebook.

For more information on Viola.AI and to join the whitelist, visit www.viola.ai

Join the discussion on Viola.AI Telegram: https://t.me/ViolaAI

About Viola.AI

Viola.AI is an ever-improving, decentralized and secure A.I. Driven Marketplace that gives data-driven advice, recommendations, concierge and matches to help singles to be effective and efficient in finding love while also helping couples to sustain and better their relationships with their significant other.

Press Contact

Christina Thung

Head of PR

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Viola.AI community: Telegram

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.

Blockchain Powered 3D and VR Open Source Platform MARK.SPACE Announces the Launch of CRYPTO.VALLEY Virtual City

MARK.SPACE, a blockchain powered ecosystem for the creation of all types of VR/3D projects, has just launched their new virtual infrastructure project called CRYPTO.VALLEY.  The creators claim that this new project will be a comprehensive and distinctive 3D and VR-compatible virtual city that will serve as an interactive hub of information for the crypto enthusiasts.   28th February, 2018 MARK.SPACE is delighted to announce the mega launch of CRYPTO.VALLEY, a new virtual infrastructure project that promises to be a cynosure of the global crypto community as an interactive and informational pool. In its fully functional form, CRYPTO.VALLEY will be a

MARK.SPACE, a blockchain powered ecosystem for the creation of all types of VR/3D projects, has just launched their new virtual infrastructure project called CRYPTO.VALLEY.  The creators claim that this new project will be a comprehensive and distinctive 3D and VR-compatible virtual city that will serve as an interactive hub of information for the crypto enthusiasts.  

28th February, 2018

MARK.SPACE is delighted to announce the mega launch of CRYPTO.VALLEY, a new virtual infrastructure project that promises to be a cynosure of the global crypto community as an interactive and informational pool. In its fully functional form, CRYPTO.VALLEY will be a virtual city completely compatible with the 3D and VR technologies.

MARK.SPACE was unveiled recently as a 3D and VR open source platform, leveraging the power of blockchain technology to deliver a user-friendly tool for the creation and implementation of all types of VR/3D projects. All projects on this unique ecosystem can be accessed through any web-browser, and without using any specialized VR equipment. Moreover, unlike all existing VR platforms, the virtual spaces on this platform can be visited without paying any membership fees. Most importantly, there is no need for the users to understand even the basics of programming to create VR-compatible web-spaces.   

With its four thematic districts, viz. shopping, business, residential, and community, MARK.SPACE creates an opportunity for the users to visit virtualized copies of actual locations such as apartments, offices, fan clubs, and fashion boutiques. Business owners and freelancers will be able to utilize this platform to generate an income stream and turn virtual services into sold goods.

The CRYPTO.VALLEY project will be a key component of the MARK.SPACE ecosystem, offering a virtually rendered platform for socioeconomic interactions. There is a high likelihood that this platform will be of much interest to all the key players of the global crypto community including the blockchain developers, crypto-exchanges, foundations and associations, protocols, mining equipment manufacturers, advisors and experts, crypto-bloggers, and gadget showrooms. The MARK.SPACE team is confident that their latest venture will immensely benefit the crypto or blockchain projects, crypto-banks, VCs, crypto funds, and all other crypto enthusiasts.  

The MARK.SPACE team, for the ease of understanding, refers to CRYPTO.VALLEY as a “3D and VR-compatible Reddit, BitcoinTalk, KickStarter or Crypto Wikipedia.” The team informs that this platform is intended to help users accumulate advertising traffic and serve as a platform for expertise. The former is particularly important as this will open up a completely new paradigm in terms of audience loyalty and customer satisfaction.

“We believe that the virtual city will soon become the central visual point and reputational playground for crypto businesses and individuals: an opportunity for projects to present themselves in 3D and/or VR format,” said a senior member of the MARK.SPACE team.  

MARK.SPACE has just started accepting applications for admission to their just launched Valley community. Interested parties can send in their applications by visiting the new landing page of the project at Crypto-valley.io.

Starting from April, 2018, MARK.SPACE will start the allocation of virtual properties and addresses alongside other districts as per the company’s development roadmap.

To find out more about MARK.SPACE, please visit https://mark.space/

About MARK.SPACE:  

MARK.SPACE is a new generation of the Internet: compatible websites that, on the one hand are independent (since they have their own domain) and on the other are united by a common transaction and accounting system on the Blockchain and a global search engine. In addition, any user can visit and even have his own the 3D / VR / AR (virtual reality / augmented reality) space inside the universe MARK.SPACE for free.


Contact: Utushkin Vladislav, CMO MARK.SPACE

Website: http://mark.space/

Email: [email protected]

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.

Skychain Global Looks to Save Millions of People from Mistaken Diagnoses Utilizing Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain

Skychain Global, for the first time in Russia, has successfully conducted a test of the artificial intelligence system for medical diagnostics, comparing the number of errors committed by the living doctors. This infrastructure blockchain project is aimed at helping doctors and patients have accurate diagnoses. 28th February, 2018 Skychain Global is pleased to reveal that they have just concluded a test of their artificial intelligence system by comparing the number of errors committed by the living doctors while carrying out medical diagnostics. Interestingly, this is the first ever test of its kind to be conducted in Russia. An infrastructure blockchain

Skychain Global, for the first time in Russia, has successfully conducted a test of the artificial intelligence system for medical diagnostics, comparing the number of errors committed by the living doctors. This infrastructure blockchain project is aimed at helping doctors and patients have accurate diagnoses.

28th February, 2018

Skychain Global is pleased to reveal that they have just concluded a test of their artificial intelligence system by comparing the number of errors committed by the living doctors while carrying out medical diagnostics. Interestingly, this is the first ever test of its kind to be conducted in Russia. An infrastructure blockchain project, Skychain is dedicated to providing an infrastructure to radically increase the efficiency of healthcare AI development and training.

There is no denying the fact that the field of medical sciences have experienced significant progress over the years. However, human beings are not perfect, and hence, are prone to errors. Unfortunately, just like many years ago, doctors still make mistakes in medical diagnosis. Recent statistical figures suggest that medical errors are the third most common cause of death in the US, after old age and oncology. As an example, it has been argued that doctors fail to diagnose 70% of lung cancer of the first stage on a radiograph.

Experts suggest that the groundbreaking AI technology can help detect a very high percentage of cases that even the best of human doctors fail to diagnose. Skychain Global is in the process of developing a platform on the blockbuster that promises to drastically increase the efficiency and accuracy of artificial intelligence in medicine, by securely uniting all participants in the process of building computer intelligence. The core idea of ​​Skychain is to unite a single smart contract between the owners of big-data in the field of medicine, AI developers and consumers.

Skychain was founded by a successful businessman in the field of IT, with support from experts in the field of artificial intelligence and healthcare partners across the globe. The project team has already developed a prototype system and published its source code on GitHub. On February 20, the prototype system was tested in diagnostics. A few neural networks hosted on Skychain diagnosed melanoma, breast cancer, and heart diseases more accurately compared to the human doctors.   

A short video of the event is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqnhaghfrI

Interestingly, the system was found to deliver wrong results for 4% to 14% of cases, compared to 18% to 32% of cases diagnosed wrongly by the doctors. Moreover, Skychain spent an average of 0.1 seconds for each diagnosis, while the doctors required around 20-30 seconds. The findings of the test clearly indicate that the advent of artificial intelligence in medicine will save the lives of millions of people every year.

The testing of the Skychain Global system was carried out under the active participation of several top notch doctors, medical professionals, and healthcare professionals.

“Your developments are very relevant; they will be primarily useful for screening,” said Volgin Valeriy Nikolaevich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, and dermatologist.

“A modern, unique project, which has no analogues in practical medicine. The project provides a preliminary assessment of the pathological process in different branches of medicine with artificial intelligence,” feels Ovsyannikova Maria Romanovna, a renowned doctor, pathologist, oncomorphologist, and forensic medical expert. “This function can be used by both patients and practitioners. The development of such technologies is necessary and inevitable in modern medicine.”  

Another top notch doctor and anaesthesiology, resuscitation, and ECG diagnostics expert Golikov Maxim Alekseevich said, “At a minimum, similar studies involving artificial intelligence are ancillary support for the doctor. The program issues a decision that can draw the doctor’s attention, and perhaps make a different decision.”

Highlighting her experience of participating in the trial, noted dermatologist Sadovskaya Maria Valeryevna said, “The competition of doctors with artificial intelligence is quite a new thing for us. For me, the assignment was not difficult, but very useful. It was nice that dermatologists responded best and at the end I just lost 2 points to artificial intelligence.”

In its initial stage, Skychain Global is focused solely on medical diagnostics with the help of AI at the level of the doctors.  However, the accumulation of medical big-data in a single ecosystem of machine learning promises to provide unprecedented opportunities in the near future. AI can estimate the effectiveness of drugs and treatment regimens based on a billion case histories, independently discover new diseases, develop the most effective treatment regimens for a particular patient, and even, perhaps, develop new drugs and approaches. Skychain project can make this a reality by uniting all in a single ecosystem offering a huge array of medical data available for training neural networks.

More about Skychain Global can be found at https://skychain.global/

About Skychain Global:

Skychain is an infrastructure blockchain project aimed to host, train and use artificial neural networks (ANNs) by market participants. In its initial phase, the project will be devoted only to medicine to help doctors and patients have accurate diagnoses using this system. Each member of the ecosystem will provide his/her resources and thus create a product that is ahead of any competitor’s. In its turn, the system will reward each participant with high benefits.

Contact:

https://skychain.global/

Gennady Popov

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+ 7916-637-40-91

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