Day: March 3, 2018

In the world of cryptocurrency, there is a severe lack of privacy and anonymity to deal with. Especially when it comes to Bitcoin and even Ethereum, neither trait is easy to come by. DeepOnion is a relatively new cryptocurrency which promises to address these problems moving forward. Whether or not it will succeed is a different matter altogether.

What is DeepOnion?

As the name somewhat suggests, DeepOnion focuses on providing anonymity first and foremost. With this project mainly relying on TOR connectivity, there will always be questions as to what the future holds for this specific cryptocurrency. It is certainly possible that a TOR-based cryptocurrency could succeed, even though most people will acknowledge this protocol is not sufficient to provide actual anonymity to the public. It’s better than optional privacy, at least.

Under the Hood

DeepOnion has a lot of features which people may want to take note of. First of all, the currency uses TOR, as previously mentioned. This will help improve privacy for users, yet it is insufficient to provide proper anonymity. It seems the project mainly focuses on private transactions through its native ecosystem. It is also worth noting these transactions are instant, which is certainly something to look forward to. It also seems DeepOnion uses the OBSF4 public key obfuscation protocol to hide the message content passing through the protocol. That’s an interesting approach, although it remains to be seen how this will all work exactly.

There is also the DeepVault service to take note of, which provides an immutable information store on the DeepOnion blockchain. This tool can be used for storing file validation credentials within the blockchain itself. It can be a welcome addition to DeepOnion, even though it’s not something most people would associate with a currency focusing on privacy and anonymity. Other features will come to this network as well, including DeepSend – for untraceable payments based on multisignature technology  – and VoteCentral to determine the future of the DeepOnion project as a whole.

The Future of DeepOnion

With the year 2018 upon us, the DeepOnion team has a fair bit of work to do. For now, they are focusing on the launch of VoteCentral, marketing, and mobile wallets. Later this year, there will be free airdrops for all 12.5 million coins, an effort to bring more shopping sites supporting ONION on board, and the launch of DeepSend. Zero-knowledge protocol support will come to market by the end of the year, as will smart contract technology.

Shipowner.io: Making it easier to participate in the maritime industry’

Owning ships and other types of marine assets has long been the realm of the well-to-do, often beyond the financial means of the average Joe. Thus, Shipowner.io wishes to change this fact with their blockchain-based platform that tokenizes marine assets and services to make it both more convenient and cheaper.

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With the use of SHIP (Shipping Industry Participations) tokens, anyone and everyone will be given the ability to participate in any part of a capital structure backed by real-world maritime assets and services.

This basically means that instead of using traditional financing avenues often employed in the maritime industry — which often go through middlemen such as banks, rich debtors and alternative financial institutions — the more democratic financial ecosystem of cryptocurrency can be leveraged instead.

The platform’s token sale is slated to launch on March 7th, 2018 — where, presumably, most of SHIP tokens available for purchase will be sold off to willing buyers. According to Shipowner.io’s press release,  the company has already secured commitments in excess of $200 million for marine assets and services with $14 billion of assets and services being the goal by 2023.

Shipowner.io’s General Mission

The task at hand, and the general mission of Shipowner.io in general is to make it easier for more people to participate in the investment of the maritime industry.  At the same time, they want to give all potential investors the chance to diversify their holdings in the space and provide improved liquidity and a more equitable sharing of benefits.

According to the project’s leaders, It has the potential to trailblaze industry transformation towards greater accessibility, efficiency, rationality, and transparency in the flow and allocation of capital.

Shipowner.io intends on doing this with the help of blockchain innovation, creating embedded efficiencies inherent to all blockchain data structures. Some other typical features of the blockchain that will be highlighted include increased transparency — something that comes with the territory of being a public ledger.

Additionally, through asset tokenization diversification possibilities will seemingly increase without bound, because now people can buy and sell tokens that act as proof of ownership of ships without ever having to go through the cumbersome process of physically buying or selling ships or requiring permission from other participants.

Streamlining the buying and selling of maritime assets

For shipowners on the platform, monetizing their maritime assets will be a cut-and-dry process that will streamline the whole thing from top to bottom. After some initial backgrounds checks and having AI-based algorithms select specific assets to be bought based on proprietary risk-reward models — final terms are agreed upon by buyer and seller.

The assets are then transferred to a dedicated legal structure, tokenized and divided into fractions, at a low cost versus bank financing or capital markets. These fractions are then bought by Shipowner.io’s platform participants using SHIPs. As soon as the sale of portions is completed, funds are transferred to the shipowner.

Easing the entry of non-crypto participants, the platform provides dedicated wallets which are unique to each participant. These wallets will be used to buy/sell within the platform and store SHIP tokens, in addition to other fractional assets and services. Meanwhile, the company is working on the next phase of its development – the online exchange.

This exchange is expected to begin testing in Q2 2018 and will facilitate direct, seamless transfer of one portion with another.

To learn more visit the Website: https://shipowner.io

Trading cryptocurrencies is a very attractive opportunity, yet it’s also confusing to a lot of people. The Santiment Network is meant to address this problem. Its focus on market data feeds, newswires, and crowd sentiment insights for the blockchain world should lead to a more insightful and profitable way of trading blockchain assets moving forward.

What is Santiment Exactly?

It is evident the wisdom of the crowd plays a big role in the financial world. Opinions of so-called (and self-professed) experts have far less meaning these days. Harnessing the wisdom of the crowd, especially in the cryptocurrency world, remains a bit difficult. Santiment wants to deliver clarity with market sentiment-based content and data feeds which are not found anywhere else in the world. As such, everyone will be able to trade with confidence.

How Does it Work in Reality?

While it is commendable to see Santiment focus on ensuring that traders are never blindsided by crypto markets, doing so will require a lot of work. The focus on data should make it easier for even novice traders to learn more about market patterns. For advanced traders, this information can improve overall speed and scale. The project will eventually turn into the world’s largest library of data feeds for cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets alike.

By sourcing content and information from different news sources, Santiment aims to become the “homepage” for cryptocurrency and blockchain asset traders, so to speak. Its information will touch upon many subjects, including regulation, ICOs, blockchain, sentiment, and so forth. The project also offers a low-latency and real-time stream for quantitative trading, which is something more advanced speculators will thoroughly enjoy.

With the help of technical and business partners, Santiment can certainly become a new hub for blockchain asset trading information. Whether or not this platform can successfully counter the inherent volatility of cryptocurrency markets is a different matter altogether. Traders and market makers will bend currency valuations to their will regardless of the news. It will be interesting to see if Santiment can make any impact in that regard.

The Santiment Network Token Explained

Access to all of the features and information provided on Santiment requires the Santiment Network Token. With this token, accessing content and data feeds is quite straightforward. This token can also be staked to secure the network and earn a passive revenue stream. There will also be auctions for “exclusive” data sets, which is worth keeping an eye on. After all, SAN can only thrive if the platform provides the information traders are looking for.

The Road Ahead for Santiment

Building a data-driven blockchain economy is anything but easy. For the time being, the team is focusing on integrating the SAN token to access community work, expanding their list of blockchain data feeds, and adding bots to Telegram. Later on this year, we will see the addition of a crowd sentiment data feed, as well as the sale of the first subscriptions. In the future, a reputation system will also be implemented. There will be hundreds of data feeds by that time, with third-party integration going live around then as well.

Hamster Marketplace is a decentralized platform for the sale of unique and indie electronics with no middlemen. The foundational ideas of the project are direct partnership with device manufacturers, collective management of the platform by the vendors, as well as state-of-the-art advances in inventory, data analysis, and delivery tracking.

The plan is to create several key systems that will favorably distinguish Hamster Marketplace from other platforms. These systems include a defect tracking system (Defect Rate), a smart data collection and arbitration system, and a mechanism to vet manufacturers at the earliest stage, when they first enter the platform. Each of these mechanisms is described in detail below.

A System for Attracting and Vetting Manufacturers

One of the key problems for modern internet retail platforms is the massive number of unscrupulous sellers. The conception for Hamster Marketplace includes working directly with manufacturers, with each product placement on the platform being unique, but that does not solve the issue of ensuring the quality and good faith of manufacturers themselves, who act as the vendors. For this reason, the project’s administration has developed a series of measures to vet manufacturers before giving them access to sell their products on the marketplace.

First, each vendor who expresses an interest in operating on Hamster Marketplace is individually verified. This verification includes everything, from reviewing the documentation and verifying the manufacturer’s existence to evaluating potential risks concerning their stability and the quality of their products.

Manufacturers who meet the platform’s requirements in part may secure their place with a deposit in HMT tokens. If there are any statistically significant problems with the products, large numbers of complaints, or other serious incidents, the deposit would go to covering losses and compensating buyers, and the vendor would be blocked from the platform. If, on the other hand, the vendor addresses any issues and comes into complete compliance with the platform’s requirements, the deposit is returned, with the tokens applied to the vendor’s balance.

Defect Rate Inventory System

Experience shows that, for buyers, acquiring a product from small-batch production can turn into a kind of lottery. In this lottery, someone might receive the product of their dreams, but they might also receive a mediocre (and at times non-operational) hack job. Hamster Marketplace will not work with manufacturers who deliver clearly low-quality goods.

The Defect Rate system involves collecting data on each placement of each product, based on reviews from users. All the information will be recorded in the Emercoin blockchain to ensure transparency, public accessibility, and immutability of the data on manufacturers. This is needed to eliminate the possibility of influencing Defect Rate, thereby influencing the rating of a given manufacturer and their product. Data will only be entered into the blockchain from “live” orders, orders that were actually paid for and received, to avoid the chance of inflating ratings or attacks on competitors.

If there are large-scale quality issues with a product, the manufacturer will either have to mitigate the problem and compensate users for damage, or be entirely and irrevocably blocked from accessing the marketplace.

Delivery Tracking System

In addition to Defect Rate, a delivery tracking system will be implemented on the platform. First and foremost, this is needed to avoid fraud attempts by unscrupulous buyers, as well as attempts by vendors to inflate the number of positive reviews. As with Defect Rate, all information on successful or failed deliveries to buyers will be recorded in the blockchain.

In addition to the issue of fraud, this tracking system also addresses the issue of tracking the actual volume of a vendor’s sales, since the number of orders received does not always clearly reflect the actual number of devices shipped (due to canceled orders, funds returned, product sold out, etc.).

Arbitration System

The dispute arbitration system is a logical continuation of the Defect Rate and delivery tracking systems. Unlike the mechanisms described above, the arbitration will be conducted manually by a team of Hamster Marketplace moderators. Arbitration will be involved only in individual cases, when data from the automated systems don’t show the entire picture and don’t allow for the guilty party to be identified without additional information.

Arbitration is an established practice on all modern platforms. Non-routine situations, where the seller and vendor can’t resolve the problem directly, are a regular occurrence. Resolving such situation is the purpose of the “third party” represented by the platform’s arbitration system.

Price Data Collection

Working directly with manufacturers does not always guarantee the lowest price. The Hamster Marketplace administration does not limit or dictate to their vendors on where else they can sell their products. The purpose of the marketplace is to offer the best service and the best prices for the products offered.

To maintain the terms of this policy, the platform will include a full-fledged system to collect data on the prices for products offered outside the marketplace. It will allow for automatic data collection and for prices to be adjusted downward. At the same time, attempts to “crater” the price for products will be nipped in the bud. In the event of anomalous price jumps, humans will get involved in the data analysis to evaluate the data collected by the system and to reach a final conclusion.

The operation of all the systems described will result in a maximum advantage for users, who will have the certainty that Hamster Marketplace offers a reliable service and the best online prices for the products they want.

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Dentacoin, the Blockchain project known as one of the emerging trends in the dental industry, announced yet another important partnership. The next company joining the global Dentacoin partner network is Floss Bar – a New York-based company created by Eva Sadej in 2017 to make routine dental care easily accessible to everyone. Floss Bar was recognized and awarded by the prestigious App Idea Awards 2017.

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About Floss Bar

Floss Bar allows dental hygienists to freelance and schedule basic care – like cleaning, whitening, flossing, polishing – in the dental office where they now work, but in off-hours not used by the dentist. This is a win-win-win because the hygienists get extra work and income, the dentists create an additional revenue stream as they take a piece of the hygienists’ business, and the patients get access to affordable routine dental care at a time that fits their schedule best (no long waiting lists, no insurance required).

Similar to the mission of Dentacoin, making preventive dental care accessible to everyone stands at the core of Floss Bar.

A Harvard graduate and a former hedge fund analyst at the world’s largest hedge fund, Eva Sadej established Floss Bar after seeing as a customer how logistically complicated it was to get  basic dental care.

Here is what she shared about the decision to implement Dentacoin and her vision on the cooperation.

How did you decide to implement Dentacoin?

Eva Sadej: We have been following blockchain technology closely and think the possibilities for business and society are revolutionary and we have been eager to see it integrated into the dental industry. We see Cryptocurrencies permeating into all parts of society and there are many interesting use cases within the dental industry. Our commitment is to allow patients to pay in the best way that works for them and being in NYC which has been a hotbed for crypto projects we felt it makes sense to give our patients that option. The dental market has been behind the curve when it comes to implementing new technologies and innovations and we are looking to change that.

Have you already presented Dentacoin to your patients?

Eva Sadej: We are looking to educate our leadership team on the platform and its use cases. Most of our patients and team have heard of bitcoin but there is still a steep learning curve for our dentists to become comfortable with this innovative payment method, but we are confident that they will see the value once properly informed. We are excited to be one of the first dental companies to be on the edge of innovation and supporting the healthcare community in understanding this powerful technology. We have plans to incorporate it as part of our product roadmap across Floss Bar website, marketing, outreach, and social channels like Facebook and Instagram. Part of being an early adopter is the role of educating both the providers and our patients, and leading by example.

How do you see the future cooperation between Floss Bar and Dentacoin?

Eva Sadej: Patients want a dental experience that is on par with modern affordable on-demand services they are accustomed to like Lyft, Drybar, AirBNB, whether they are insured or not. We feel that blockchain is a revolution democratizing healthcare. We see a world where the doctors and patients have a more direct connection and we can minimize the need for unnecessary fees and administrative costs from third-party administrators. We want to drive value to our patients and we want them to benefit by engaging with Floss Bar as their key, 5-star provider or preventative care and pipeline to advanced services by reputable dentists. And we are always seeking feedback on their contributions online, giving reviews and interacting with content. This new technology has the potential to have them benefit by spending their time at Floss Bar both in person and digitally, giving the gift of Oral Health Reimagined to their peers and family.

How do you estimate the future potential of the project?

Eva Sadej: There are over 130 million people that do not have access to oral health in the US – due to dentists being unavailable in their areas, as well as fear, time, and price. Getting care currently takes away from their work lives, prices increasing at 2x the inflation rate, and anxiety about drills and past negative experiences keeps they away. The dental market is dominated by legacy and disparate systems and practices have yet to create efficiencies through design, technology, innovation, and automation. The average practice is operating at less than 50% utilization. Basically, there are chairs in offices that are empty and there are patients that desperately need the care. This presents a tremendous opportunity. The 180k hygienists in the US are under-employed and we are the leaders in the preventive health revolution. We see the use of the latest technology, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies as the tools to tap into this ever growing market of healthcare.

Dentacoin is already implemented as means of payment at nineteen dental clinics around the world (in USA, Australia, UK, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Fiji, India, Pakistan) and more than 10 000 people are actively using the developed tools (Dentacoin Trusted Reviews, DentaVox Research Platform, Dentacare mobile app). Recently Dentacoin also announced strategic partnerships with Arklign, an end-to-end digital dental lab partner located in San Jose, California, and PCP Dental Recruitment, one of the fastest growing dental recruitment agencies in the UK. The currency cycle is closed.

With everyone from chemists to street sweepers piling into Bitcoin, cryptocurrency exchanges are struggling to keep up with demand.

Exchanges worldwide are adding around 100,000 new users each day, even after the recent pullback in the Bitcoin price.

The surge in sign-ups peaked in January and caused lengthy delays in verification. A number of top exchanges were forced to stop accepting new users, or to impose limits on new sign ups while they upgraded their systems to cope. Users flooded social media to complain of server downtime and painfully slow transactions.

Binance had to put a cap on new users after 240,000 users signed up in a single hour. The exchange only opened in July 2017 but has since signed up 7 million users and has become so popular it sometimes trades more than $8 billion USD a day. In February it went offline for a day and a half — an outage that was lengthened by the huge amount of user data Binance has on its servers.

CEX.IO, Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Kraken have all reported similar difficulties in handling the flood of new users.

But the huge surge in demand has also created enormous commercial opportunities for new exchanges such as the Melbourne-based Nauticus Exchange.

Set to open by mid-year, the exchange will initially offer 100 cryptocurrencies, which will increase to more than 300 over the next 12 months. That’ll put it in the top ten exchanges worldwide.

The exchange will have a truly global focus and will support six major foreign currencies at launch — USD, EUR, JPY, HKD, AUD and ZAR. This will later expand to 16 fiat.

Only BTC, ETH and the Nauticus Coin will be able to be directly exchanged for all 100 of the other altcoins. Users of the Nauticus Coin will get a 50 percent discount on trading fees, which will drive the adoption, use and price of the coin.

A similar strategy by Binance, saw the Binance Coin increase in value by more than 22,000 percent to its highs. Even its current price is a 10,000 percent rise from the ICO.

Nauticus will also establish a sustainable, large-scale blockchain mining center next year that will provide additional revenue, and a sizeable amount of server capacity to ensure ultra-fast processing for all users of Nauticus services.

Profits will be reinvested in the business to support the development of a low-cost eCommerce marketplace, along with merchant and peer-to-peer payment platforms. These will be underpinned by the Nauticus Coin, Exchange, Mobile App and Wallet.

The company will also offer ‘one and done’ Know Your Customer (KYC) verification and create an ICO community, which will provide resources and services for new ICOs as well as a quality verification system.

Nauticus has just launched pre-registration for its Initial Coin Offering.

The presale begins on March 18 and the ICO itself runs from March 31 to May 18, 2018.

ICO backers who register on the website now will be rewarded with 100 FREE COINS. There are many more free coins on offer through our referrals program.

The Nauticus Coin will underpin six global banking and eCommerce solutions and can be traded on the Nauticus Exchange at the end of the ICO period.

Early supporters of the Nauticus ICO will be provided a BONUS OF UP TO 30 PERCENT FREE COINS.

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Anonymity-oriented altcoin Zcash announces their network upgrade Overwinter, clarifying the transition is “not expected” to result in a hard fork #NEWS

SINGAPORE – Rate3 aims to create a new global e-commerce ecosystem that ties consumers, merchants, suppliers and other intermediaries together with a native cryptocurrency that facilitates all transactions efficiently, cheaply and quickly.

The cross-borders e-commerce payment space today is far from perfect. Firstly, transaction costs and time — especially for cross-border payments — are excessive and inefficient. Secondly, there is no fully transparent and tamper-free reputation systems to assess the trustworthiness of buyers and sellers. Card fraud, which remains as a main concern for online retailers, is costing online retail merchants billions of dollars today and is expected to rise to US$31.7 billion by 2020. Lastly, there is selective and deliberate exclusion from our financial systems today. This is especially prevalent and obvious in Southeast Asia (SEA): 73% of the 600 million SEA residents have no formal access to financial institutions.

Rate3 wants to solve the three biggest problems in the current cross-borders payment space through the release of a new payment token, $RTE, that facilitates all transactions between all players in the e-commerce space efficiently, cheaply and quickly. Rate3 (RTE) will be built on the Stellar network, leveraging on its low transaction costs, fast transaction speeds and decentralized distributed exchange over common blockchain platforms like Bitcoin and Etherum.

Why Rate3?

First, using a single unified token of exchange (for instance, $RTE) eliminates costly transaction fees and unfavorable exchange rate conversion fees. In eradicating most intermediaries in the process, we make it up to 5 times cheaper and 1000 times faster for consumers and merchants to transfer and accept payments with Rate3.

Second, every payment transaction facilitated by Rate3 network will be properly stored on the blockchain ledger and no one can tamper with these transaction ledgers. As a result, Rate3 is able to create a transparent and tamper-free reputation rating system to assess the trustworthiness of buyers and sellers. By decentralizing trust, consumer fraud is reduced and merchants are more beholden to provide the products or services as advertised and in good condition.

Third, Rate3 enable cashback process to be seamless, instant and verified— a truly disruptive method in the e-commerce landscape today. Transactions facilitated on the Rate3 network are processed quickly  by leveraging on the merits of Stellar network  – this allows merchants to instantly verify a purchase with no risk of chargeback or fraud and pass on the cashback savings through third party affiliate players to consumers. With seamless, instant and easy cashback process, incentivizing consumers for their online purchases will be easier for merchants.

Jake Goh, CEO of Rate3 also explains:

“The inefficiencies in our current financial institutions are unnecessary and should have long been a relic of the past. The Rate3 ecosystem will serve those currently disenfranchised by the financial systems in SEA. We aim to create a globally portable and inclusive credit profile, thus reducing the need for opaque credit scores and unnecessary documentation required for credit applications.”

By building on the transactions recorded in the blockchain ledgers, introducing new identity attesters, consolidating new data sets such as mobile top-ups or remittance transactions and even peer scoring, we can extend necessary credit to more participants in SEA. This is where Rate3 helps traditional lenders issue credit for our token users: an end to end protocol eventually to serve billions of people.

The team behind Rate3 is the same team that built two successful products in the payments space within a year. RateX is a desktop browser extension that helps consumers pay the mid-market exchange rates while making online purchases. They have partnered with e-commerce giants Amazon and Taobao and facilitated purchases amounting to millions in GMV. RateS, is their mobile app built to cater to the increasingly mobile consumers in SEA.

After receiving the support of various institutional funds and angel investors based on the two previous successful products, Rate3 will launch its token sale in March 2018. For more information, please visit their official website and  official telegram group.

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Hicky’s partners at NAGA have generously donated another 20,000 NGC (worth approximately $20,000!) to help boost the Hicky Project so Hicky is passing that on to their investors in three rounds.

NAGA proofed to deliver outstanding results and that is why Hicky team is proud to integrate the NAGA Coin in the Hicky universe.

You will be able to use the NAGA Coin in Hicky App and the HKY Token will be integrated in the NAGA ecosystem. A win for both companies.

How does it work?

First Rallye

February 26th — March 4th

What to win:

• 1st place: 5 000 NGC
• 2nd place: 2 000 NGC
• 3rd place: 1 500 NGC
• 4th place: 1 000 NGC
• 5th place: 500 NGC

Conditions:

• Register your account at https://join.hicky.io/register
• Share your individual referral link to your friends
• Your referrals have to contribute at least 0.5 ETH to our token sale between February 26th — March 4th
• The winner is, who brings the highest amount of referrals and volume
• The winners will be announced on March 7th and the payout will be made within 7 days of the end of our token sale.

Visit the website and take part! Moreover, join Telegram channel to ask questions and learn more.

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About Robotina

Robotina is a Slovenian company, which was founded in 1990, being intensely focused on the innovatory aspect of automation and control technology. By using their Internet of Things (IoT) enabled hardware, cloud software and other various technological solutions, the company has proved that it has only provided quality services in many different industries.

Robotina’s employees have years of experience in their respective fields and business connections. Robotina has been involved in partnerships with big companies, Hitachi & Panasonic being just one of the names they have collaborated with.

About the platform and the company’s goals

The Robotina Platform will be a vertical, high-tech all-inclusive enabling solution, comprising of connected Internet of Things (IoT) elements and the Power Platform (PP). It will utilize Smart Rules, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. The platform will run on cloud servers.

The company has already tested, demonstrated and validated, that up to 10-20 % can be saved by using the latest and most advanced technology, which is now attainable and practical.

Robotina aims to create a connected community, whose members will benefit by saving a considerable amount on energy costs, generate relevant earnings as well as contribute to a greener environment and sustainable development by optimizing energy consumption and consequently reducing emissions.

In the period up to 2020 and beyond, Robotina‘s goal is to become one of the world’s leading providers of specialized connected control devices and systems. To achieve this ambitious objective, the company has invested in the development of propriety technology:

• Cybro-I, II and III (Q1/18): is a distributed control system equipped with all the necessary hardware and software, making it very suitable for customizing and adapting solutions to any potential challenges that may arise. It’s the first IoT programmable controller.

• SMIP: Cloud (SaaS) is the platform that enables this technology, communicating securely with Cybro controllers to overcome the gap between controllers (real world) and Internet (virtual world). Thus, such technologies have opened a new path for vertically integrated solutions (from sensor to Internet and viceversa).

ICO details

The Robotina Platform will be crypto-friendly, making use of the Robotina Utility token (ROX), the platform’s native token based on Ethereum, for all its internal transactions. The token will enable the user to acquire services and products sold on the Robotina platform with other cryptocurrencies, tokens or fiat currencies. The user will only receive a special discount of 3% when paying with ROX. Other means of payment will be converted into ROX and the rewards will be shared with the community.

Users will be able to use Robotina Utility Tokens (ROX) to take part in crowdfunding of the pro table projects using ESCO or VPP schemes.

Benefits:

• Awareness and control – Energy Management System (EMS), HIQ-Home and other IoT that are connected to the platform will help users monitor and manage their sites and IoT and control them at any given time or place.
• Energy efficiency and Dynamic energy pricing – through analytical tools, remote control, advanced rules, multi-objective optimization and artificial intelligence, the user will obtain a fast ROI (Return on Investment), saving more than 20 % on their energy expenses. Users will also help reduce CO2 emissions and enjoy tax benefits.
• Security and safety – all potentially threatening and dangerous situations will be detected by artificial intelligence and the user will be notified.

There are also benefits for big and corporate users, such as:

• Energy efficiency: Large consumers and corporate users who will connect their establishments to the Robotina Platform, will reduce their energy consumption and maintenance expenses by an estimated 30 %.

Robotina is devoted on becoming one of the leading providers of smart connected solutions, components and platforms, which will change the way the world manages energy.

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The demise of BitConnect has shown cryptocurrency investors how dangerous this world really is. In hindsight, there were quite a lot of warning signs along the way, though. In fact, most people saw this coming from miles away, yet thousands of people still lost money.

The BitConnect Writing was on the Wall

According to a recent interesting infographic associated with the demise of BitConnect, this project was destined to fail. One could even argue that everything about this notorious Ponzi scheme was laid out so carefully, it is rather worrisome that people didn’t notice it sooner. Even for those not familiar with the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a whole, there were plenty of red flags surrounding BitConnect from day one.

When BitConnect initially launched, most people could see the company’s vision was very different from what they would have people believe. Virtually guaranteeing profits to investors regardless of the changing overall markets is always worrisome. After all, there is no financial instrument which can guarantee profits from day one.

For those people who managed to look past that aspect, the company also had its own trading platform. As we have seen with other scams and Ponzi schemes in the past, any cryptocurrency primarily traded on a native exchange will eventually defraud users at some point. There have been similar programs in the past, although many people wrongly assumed BitConnect would turn out differently.

Over the months, BitConnect also garnered a fair amount of shills on YouTube. Although it is not abnormal for people on YouTube or other forms of mass media to promote cryptocurrencies, things quickly got out of hand with BitConnect. The similarities between this Ponzi scheme and OneCoin have become all too apparent. Unfortunately, this also heralded the demise of BitConnect in the long run.

Perhaps the biggest warning sign of all was the pyramid scheme structure, which also became more apparent over time. Every paying participant had to recruit two other people to provide returns to previous investors. Such a structure is not entirely uncommon in the world of investment schemes, but it is a worrisome sign. MLM schemes are usually perfectly legitimate, but the way BitConnect positioned itself raised a lot of questions from day one.

The last few months of this notorious Ponzi were not all that great for investors. Things quickly went downhill when the BCC value tanked by 90%, which was the direct result of the company shutting down the exchange which had represented over 97% of all BCC trades. As such, users could not withdraw their money in any official capacity. All other exchanges associated with BitConnect trading have also taken a significant PR hit, although very few platforms even listed this “currency”.

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Online gambling represents one of the first industries to experiment with use of blockchain technology, as Bitcoin casinos represented one of the most widespread use cases of cryptocurrency in early years. However, despite the evolution of cryptocurrencies in recent years, the impact on gaming has been relatively minute. Fortunately, there is an upcoming project that seeks to revolutionize blockchain-based gambling.

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For many crypto-gambling enthusiasts, SP8DE, a decentralized platform for smart contract gaming, provides a next generation approach to an otherwise entirely unimpressive industry. SP8DE represents an blockchain geared to empower developers with intuitive tools to create an endless amount of gambling content. For users, SP8DE is a provably-fair gambling library interface, allowing the user to connect with other players and games in a universal hub. For everyone, SP8DE is cheap, efficient, massively scalable, and provides spontaneous, arbitrary, immutable randomness to ensure a fair playing field for everyone involved.

How it Works

SP8DE largely incorporates the Cardano blockchain, which will be propagated through an industry-leading Proof-of-Stake (PoS) algorithm called Ouroboros. Ouroboros maintains the scalable and efficient nature of existing Proof-of-Stake solutions, while also addressing concerns pertaining to the security and vulnerability of other PoS methods. Participants of the SP8DE network will communicate with the Cardano blockchain, where each block supplies the random variables required to perform each smart contract-based game. From there, participants provide the entropy, or spontaneity, for each game. Each game runs parallel of one another as well as the Cardano blockchain, allowing for a massively scalable and unwaveringly near-free implementation of the gambling protocol. Overall SP8DE provides cutting edge engine for delivering mathematically pure distributed entropy to power fairness across the entire gaming industry.

SP8DE represents the framework for developers to create whatever games they desire. SP8DE uses Cardano’s smart contract scripting language, hailed as the most intuitive and interactive language for non-blockchain literate developers, to allow any and all online gambling developers the capability of creating contract on the platform.

The SP8DE token (SPX) is the native currency and fuel to the SP8DE network. SPX holders have access to the entire network, which includes a global library of all the smart contract games currently available. SPX holders also have publishing privileges, able to create games and post them directly to the platform. SPX is used for all wagers, and developers also receive royalties for usage of their smart contracts.

Token Sale & Jackpot

One of the features of the SP8DE ICO is it’s unique design. Apart from providing the right to use the protocol, SPX tokens also act as tickets to participate in the Jackpots – the most generous airdrops ever witnessed by the cryptospace.

The SPX token sale is currently underway. The sale is divided into five sections: a Pre-Sale and four main sale stages. At this time, the first of the main sale stages is live. A maximum of roughly SPX3.66 billion can be sold, for a maximum of 31,000 Ethereum. Unsold tokens at each stage will primarily be siphoned into ICO jackpots, with the rest returning to the founders.

As noted what makes the SPX token sale unique is the Jackpot function. Each token sold throughout the sale holds an added utility as a ticket to the SPX jackpots. 3.46 billion tokens are set aside for the jackpot, along with a majority of unsold tokens. The jackpot is split into four different stages, and will be given out in lots after each stage of the main sale to lucky investors. This jackpot is sentimental of the exciting nature of the SP8DE platform, and represents the most generous airdrop every experienced in the cryptospace.

The airdrop and sale tokens represent 80% of the total supply, which is 8,888,888,888 SPX. The other 20% will be held by the founders. The breakdown of the funding is as follows: 45% Development, 20% Operations, 15% Marketing, 10% Legal, 10% Advisors. The roadmap consists of launching the platform and introducing a number of games following a hackathon scheduled for November 2018. In 2019, games and casinos will launch, followed by the full development and release of a decentralized poker application by the end of 2019.